The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 72
“Where is it then?” asked the old woman, rather crossly, for she did not like being made fun of.
Who acts: strength, old woman, woman · What happens: be, ask, not like, make · To what, where: fun · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (strength, old woman, woman), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Where | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 woman | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 woman | amod |
| 11 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 crossly | punct |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 14 crossly | advmod |
| 14 | crossly | crossly | ADV | _ | 8 asked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 like | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 like | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 like | nsubj |
| 18 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 like | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 like | advmod |
| 20 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | conj |
| 21 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 made | aux:pass |
| 22 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 like | xcomp |
| 23 | fun | fun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 made | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fun | fixed |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | strength | then | where property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old woman | crossly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | not like | past · do-support | woman | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | gerund · passive | woman not said here | fun | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: fun=Product |
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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