The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 30
“You are dreaming, fool,” answered World’s-weight; “why he has not finished his breakfast.”
Who acts: You, World’s weight, master · What happens: dream, answer, not finish · To what, where: breakfast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, World’s weight, master), 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 | _ | 4 dreaming | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 dreaming | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 dreaming | aux |
| 4 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | csubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fool | punct |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dreaming | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreaming | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 dreaming | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | World’s | World's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 weight | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 World’s | punct |
| 12 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 finished | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 finished | punct |
| 15 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 finished | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 finished | nsubj |
| 17 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 finished | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 finished | advmod |
| 19 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 breakfast | nmod:poss |
| 21 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 finished | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dream in a quote | present · progressive | You | fool vocative | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | World’s weight | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not finish in a quote | present · perfect | master | master's breakfast | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector breakfast=Eventuality |
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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