The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 54
“Good morning,” answered the old man; “and where are you going?”
Who acts: old man, you · What happens: answer, go · 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 (old man, 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 | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 morning | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 going | cc |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 going | advmod |
| 14 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 going | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 going | nsubj |
| 16 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 answered | ccomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | the old man | morning | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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