The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 27

And the fox, who, instead of weeping over the dead bear, had been quietly eating her, answered:

Who acts: fox · What happens: weep, eat, answer · To what, where: dead bear, weeping

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), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 fox	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 eating	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weeping	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 weeping	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weeping	punct
7	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	9 weeping	mark
8	of	of	ADP	_	7 instead	fixed
9	weeping	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 fox	acl
10	over	over	ADP	_	13 bear	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bear	det
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 bear	amod
13	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 weeping	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 fox	punct
15	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eating	aux
16	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 eating	aux
17	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	18 eating	advmod
18	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 eating	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 answered	punct
21	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 eating	parataxis
22	:	:	PUNCT	_	18 eating	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	weep	gerund	the fox		the dead bear		vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past · perfect · progressive	the fox	weeping		quietly property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient
3	answer speech: assert	past					vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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