The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 101
“Where can she be?” moaned the old man, in despair.
Who acts: sign · What happens: be, moan · To what, where: old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sign), 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 | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 be | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 moaned | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | moaned | moan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moaned | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 despair | punct |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 despair | case |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 moaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can in a quote | can | sign | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | moan | past | the old man and despair | 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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