The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 88
“Does your highness know what the grimalkins are saying?” and the song broke forth again louder than ever.
Who acts: highness, grimalkins, song · What happens: do, know, say, break · 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 (highness, grimalkins, song), 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 | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 highness | nmod:poss |
| 4 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 know | nsubj |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Does | ccomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 saying | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grimalkins | det |
| 8 | grimalkins | grimalkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 saying | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | aux |
| 10 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 know | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 saying | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 broke | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 song | det |
| 15 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 broke | nsubj |
| 16 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saying | conj |
| 17 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 broke | advmod |
| 18 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 broke | advmod |
| 19 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 broke | ccomp |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 21 ever | case |
| 21 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 louder | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | your highness | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | the grimalkins | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 4 | break | past | the song | again | forth property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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