The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 105
After they had gone some distance the king said: “Why were you crying so bitterly in the garden just now?”
Who acts: servants, king, you · What happens: go, say, cry · To what, where: distance, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants, king, you), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 gone | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gone | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 gone | aux |
| 4 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 distance | det |
| 6 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gone | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 12 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 crying | advmod |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 crying | aux |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 crying | nsubj |
| 15 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 16 | so | so | ADV | _ | 17 bitterly | advmod |
| 17 | bitterly | bitterly | ADV | _ | 15 crying | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 garden | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 garden | det |
| 20 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 crying | obl |
| 21 | just | just | ADV | _ | 22 now | advmod |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 crying | advmod |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | servants = servant | some distance | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | past · progressive | you | the garden | now | bitterly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garden=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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