The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 9
“He will tell me,” cried the youngest, who was the prettiest too.
Who acts: boy · What happens: tell, cry, be · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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 | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | parataxis |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 youngest | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youngest | det |
| 10 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 prettiest | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 prettiest | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 prettiest | cop |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prettiest | det |
| 15 | prettiest | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 youngest | conj |
| 16 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 youngest | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 youngest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | future | boy | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | pretty property | 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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