The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 13
“Oh, do choose me,” cried the fox, and the bear looked at him thoughtfully.
Who acts: fox, bear · What happens: choose, cry, look · To what, where: fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, bear), 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 choose | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 choose | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 choose | aux |
| 5 | choose | choose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 choose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 choose | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 looked | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 looked | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bear | det |
| 15 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 looked | nsubj |
| 16 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 him | case |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 looked | obl |
| 19 | thoughtfully | thoughtfully | ADV | _ | 16 looked | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | choose in a quote | infinitive · do-support | the fox = fox | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the fox | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | look | past | the bear | at fox; thoughtfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
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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