The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 48
“Pears! at this season?” cried the king, peering down to look at them; “and, pray, who is your master?”
Who acts: Pears · What happens: cry, peer down, look, pray, be · To what, where: king, master · 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 (Pears), 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 | _ | 2 Pears | punct |
| 2 | Pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pears | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 season | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 season | det |
| 6 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Pears | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pears | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pears | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 peering | punct |
| 13 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 cried | advcl |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 peering | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 look | mark |
| 16 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 peering | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 look | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 pray | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 pray | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 pray | cc |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 and | punct |
| 23 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 master | punct |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 master | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 master | cop |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 master | nmod:poss |
| 28 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pray | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 23 pray | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Pears at this season | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | peer down | gerund | Pears at this season not said here | down property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | look | to-infinitive | Pears at this season not said here | at pears = pear | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | your master | tree rules |
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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