The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 77
“Oh, little fox, what have you done?” cried the youth in dismay; “when the king sees me he will order my head to be cut off.”
Who acts: you, youth, king · What happens: do, cry, see, order, cut off · To what, where: little fox, dismay, youth, head · 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, youth, king), 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 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 little | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fox | amod |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 done | obj |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 fox | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 youth | det |
| 15 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 dismay | case |
| 17 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 order | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 order | punct |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 sees | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 king | det |
| 22 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sees | nsubj |
| 23 | sees | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 order | advcl |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 sees | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 order | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 order | aux |
| 27 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 cried | parataxis |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 order | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 cut | mark |
| 31 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 32 cut | aux:pass |
| 32 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 order | advcl |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 cut | compound:prt |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 order | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 order | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | you | little fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the youth | dismay | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present | the king | the youth = youth | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | order in a quote | future | king | my head | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme | ||||
| 5 | cut off in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | king not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V» |
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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