The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 15
“Yes, beautifully, just listen,” and the fox lifted up his voice and sang weeping: “Lou, lou, lou! the famous spinner, the baker of good cakes, the prudent housekeeper is torn from her husband!
Who acts: you, fox, weeping, Lou · What happens: listen, lift up, sing, tear · To what, where: voice, prudent housekeeper · 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 (you, fox, weeping, Lou), 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 | _ | 7 listen | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 listen | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | beautifully | beautifully | ADV | _ | 7 listen | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beautifully | punct |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 listen | advmod |
| 7 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lifted | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | nsubj |
| 13 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 listen | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 lifted | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 voice | nmod:poss |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lifted | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 sang | cc |
| 18 | sang | sing | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 lifted | conj |
| 19 | weeping | weeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sang | obj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 Lou | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 Lou | punct |
| 22 | Lou | Lou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 weeping | appos |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lou | punct |
| 24 | lou | Lou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Lou | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lou | punct |
| 26 | lou | Lou | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Lou | conj |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 30 spinner | punct |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spinner | det |
| 29 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 spinner | amod |
| 30 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lou | appos |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 baker | punct |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 baker | det |
| 33 | baker | baker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 spinner | appos |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 cakes | case |
| 35 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 cakes | amod |
| 36 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 baker | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 torn | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 housekeeper | det |
| 39 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 housekeeper | amod |
| 40 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 torn | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 torn | aux:pass |
| 42 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 Lou | acl:relcl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 husband | case |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 husband | nmod:poss |
| 45 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 torn | obl |
| 46 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 listen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen in a quote | imperative | you not said here | beautifully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lift up | past | the fox | fox's voice | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent voice=Theme | ||||
| 3 | sing speech: express | past | weeping | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | tear in a quote | present · passive | Lou and lou and lou not said here | the prudent housekeeper | from wife's husband | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient from husband=Co-Patient |
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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