The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 57
“But, my dear little fox,” said he, “you have brought me nothing in return, and I am so hungry!”
Who acts: dear little fox, you · What happens: say, bring, be · To what, where: nothing, dear little fox, return · 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 (dear little fox, you), 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 fox | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fox | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fox | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fox | amod |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fox | amod |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 fox | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 fox | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 brought | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 brought | aux |
| 16 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 brought | obj |
| 18 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 brought | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 return | case |
| 20 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brought | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 hungry | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 hungry | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 hungry | cop |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 hungry | advmod |
| 26 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 said | parataxis |
| 27 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 hungry | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | my dear little fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | present · perfect | you | nothing | my dear little fox = fox | return | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination nothing=Theme | ||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | my dear little fox = fox | hungry property | 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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