The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 20
Then the fox sprang up and cried: “You wretched, thankless beggar; have you forgotten that you owe all your riches to me?”
Who acts: fox, You · What happens: spring up, cry, beggar, forget, owe · To what, where: riches, fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprang | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprang | nsubj |
| 4 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 sprang | compound:prt |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cried | cc |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprang | conj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 beggar | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 beggar | punct |
| 10 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 beggar | nsubj |
| 11 | wretched | wretched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beggar | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 wretched | punct |
| 13 | thankless | thankless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 beggar | amod |
| 14 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 forgotten | punct |
| 16 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 forgotten | aux |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 forgotten | nsubj |
| 18 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 sprang | parataxis |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 owe | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 owe | nsubj |
| 21 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 forgotten | advcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 riches | det:predet |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 riches | nmod:poss |
| 24 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 owe | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 me | case |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 owe | obl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 forgotten | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprang | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spring up | past | the fox | then | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the fox not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | beggar in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | forget in a quote | present · perfect | you | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | owe in a quote | present | you | your riches | the fox = fox | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent rich=Theme to i=Goal |
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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