The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 90
“Oh, noble Sultan, my wife is dead,” wept he.
Who acts: wife, noble Sultan · What happens: be, weep · To what, where: Abu · 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 (wife, noble Sultan), 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 | _ | 13 wept | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Sultan | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sultan | amod |
| 5 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 wept | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 dead | cop |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Sultan | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 dead | punct |
| 13 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 wept | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | my wife | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | noble Sultan | Abu | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent he=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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