The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 86
“Oh, my dear child, why was I born?
What happens: bear · To what, where: dear child
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 11 born | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 6 child | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 child | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 child | amod |
| 6 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 child | punct |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 child | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 born | aux:pass |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 born | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 born | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bear in a quote | past · passive | my dear child | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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