The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 31
“Why are you weeping, noble prince?” asked the wood-pigeon.
Who acts: you, wood pigeon · What happens: weep, ask · To what, where: noble prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, wood pigeon), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 weeping | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weeping | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 weeping | nsubj |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prince | punct |
| 7 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 prince | amod |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weeping | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 pigeon | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pigeon | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 wood | punct |
| 15 | pigeon | pigeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | you | noble prince | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the wood pigeon | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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