The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 52
“Oh, my dear son, why did you ever leave us?
Who acts: you · What happens: leave · To what, where: us
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), 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 | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 son | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 leave | advmod |
| 9 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 12 leave | advmod |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 son | parataxis |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | past · do-support | you | us | ever | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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