The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 87
“Who has been teaching you wisdom?” asked the fox, forgetting his manners in his surprise at this new turn of affairs.
Who acts: fox · What happens: teach, ask, forget, surprise · To what, where: wisdom, you, manners, surprise · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 teaching | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 teaching | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 teaching | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 teaching | aux |
| 5 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 teaching | obj |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 teaching | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 teaching | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 teaching | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forgetting | punct |
| 14 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 manners | nmod:poss |
| 16 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 forgetting | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 surprise | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 19 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgetting | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 turn | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 turn | det |
| 22 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 turn | amod |
| 23 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 forgetting | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 affairs | case |
| 25 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 turn | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | wisdom | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient wisdom=Topic | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the fox | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forget | gerund | the fox not said here | fox's manners | fox's surprise | at this new turn of affairs | tree rules | ||
| 4 | surprise | fox | nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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