The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 36

Then he cried in his wrath: “Is a mere child of earth mightier than a rock?

Who acts: rock · What happens: cry, be · To what, where: wrath, mere child · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rock), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cried	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 cried	nsubj
3	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wrath	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wrath	nmod:poss
6	wrath	wrath	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obl
7	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 child	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 child	punct
9	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 child	cop
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 child	det
11	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 child	amod
12	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cried	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 earth	case
14	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 child	nmod
15	mightier	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	14 earth	amod
16	than	than	ADP	_	18 rock	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 rock	det
18	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mightier	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	rock			rock's wrath	then		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wrath=Location
2	is a in a quote	present		a mere child				of earth	tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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