The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 87
“And you, Simon the second, what is your trade?”
Who acts: Simon · What happens: be · To what, where: trade
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Simon), 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 | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 you | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Simon | punct |
| 5 | Simon | Simon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 you | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 second | det |
| 7 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 Simon | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trade | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 trade | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 trade | cop |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 trade | nmod:poss |
| 12 | trade | trade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Simon | appos |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 trade | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 trade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Simon | your trade | tree rules |
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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