The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 94
“Go and see who it is that is crying so,” said he to one of his servants, and the man went.
Who acts: child, man · What happens: go, see, cry, say · To what, where: one · 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 (child, man), 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 Go | punct |
| 2 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 see | cc |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Go | conj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 crying | nsubj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 crying | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 crying | aux |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 crying | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 crying | aux |
| 10 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 see | ccomp |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 crying | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Go | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 said | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 servants | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 servants | nmod:poss |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 one | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 went | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 went | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 man | det |
| 24 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 went | nsubj |
| 25 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | see in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | cry speech: express in a quote | present · progressive | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | child | one of child's servants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to one=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the man | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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