The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 24

“What is the matter, my child has any one been unkind to you?” he asked one day, when he found her crying in her kitchen.

Who acts: child, any, maid · What happens: be, have, ask, find, cry · To what, where: matter, you, maid, kitchen · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (child, any, maid), 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 matter	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 matter	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 matter	det
5	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 child	nmod:poss
8	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 has	nsubj
9	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 matter	parataxis
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 unkind	nsubj
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 unkind	nsubj
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 unkind	cop
13	unkind	unkind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 has	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 unkind	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 unkind	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 has	punct
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 asked	nsubj
19	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 has	parataxis
20	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 day	nummod
21	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 asked	obl:unmarked
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	25 found	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	nsubj
25	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 asked	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 found	obj
27	crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 found	xcomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 kitchen	case
29	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 kitchen	nmod:poss
30	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 crying	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 matter	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		the matter					tree rules
2	have in a quote	present	my child						tree rules
3	is in a quote	participle	any		you			unkind property	tree rules
4	ask speech: ask	past	child				day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	find	past	child	maid					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent she=Attribute clause=Theme
6	cry speech: express	gerund	maid not said here			maid's kitchen			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in kitchen=Location

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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