The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 62
“Ah, little fox, what shall I eat if you take away all my pears?” answered the youth.
Who acts: youth, you · What happens: eat, take away, answer · To what, where: little fox, pears · 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 (youth, 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 | _ | 5 fox | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 fox | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fox | amod |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 eat | obj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | aux |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fox | parataxis |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 take | mark |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 take | nsubj |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 eat | advcl |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 13 take | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 pears | det:predet |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pears | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 take | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 eat | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 youth | det |
| 22 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | shall | the youth = youth | little fox | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take away a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | my pears | away property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pear=Theme | |||
| 3 | answer speech: ask | past | the youth | 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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