The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 78
Oh, you fool,” cried the crow, “the fox was only trying to frighten you.
Who acts: you, fool, fox · What happens: fool, cry, try, frighten · To what, where: crow, you
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fool, fox), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 fool | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oh | punct |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fool | nsubj |
| 4 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fool | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 crow | det |
| 9 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 trying | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 trying | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 fox | det |
| 13 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 trying | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 trying | aux |
| 15 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 trying | advmod |
| 16 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 frighten | mark |
| 18 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 trying | xcomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 frighten | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express in a quote | past | fool | the crow | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crow=Topic | ||||
| 3 | try | past · progressive | the fox | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | frighten not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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