The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 38
“So it is you?” cried the herdsman, when he had received the message.
Who acts: master, you, herdsman · What happens: be, cry, receive · To what, where: you, herdsman, message · 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 (master, you, herdsman), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | So | so | ADV | _ | 8 cried | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 you | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 you | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 you | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 herdsman | det |
| 10 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 received | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 received | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 received | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 received | aux |
| 15 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 cried | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 message | det |
| 17 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 received | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | master | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | you | the herdsman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herdsman=Topic | ||||
| 3 | receive | past · perfect | herdsman | the message | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent message=Theme |
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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