The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 13

“Wretch!” cried the herdsman, when he had heard this story, “even if you did not lie before, you are lying now.”

Who acts: Wretch, you · What happens: cry, hear, lie · To what, where: herdsman, story · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wretch, 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	_	2 Wretch	punct
2	Wretch	wretch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Wretch	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Wretch	punct
5	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 herdsman	det
7	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cried	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 heard	punct
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 heard	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 heard	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 heard	aux
12	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 cried	parataxis
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 story	det
14	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 heard	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lying	punct
16	“	"	PUNCT	_	27 lying	punct
17	even	even	ADV	_	22 lie	advmod
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 lie	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 lie	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 lie	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 lie	advmod
22	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 lying	aux
23	before	before	ADV	_	22 lie	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 lying	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	27 lying	nsubj
26	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 lying	aux
27	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 heard	conj
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 lying	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Wretch	the herdsman		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herdsman=Topic
2	hear	past · perfect	Wretch	this story		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus
3	lie in a quote	infinitive · progressive	you		now	vn assuming_position-50 «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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