The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 6
“What are you weeping for?” asked the man, finding the wife in tears.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: weep, ask, find · To what, where: wife, tears · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man), 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 | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 weeping | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weeping | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 weeping | nsubj |
| 5 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 weeping | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weeping | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 finding | punct |
| 13 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wife | det |
| 15 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 finding | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 tears | case |
| 17 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 finding | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | find | gerund | the man not said here | the wife | tears | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Topic |
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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