Grimms' Fairy Tales, Clever Elsie, sentence 22

Then he asked: ‘Why are you weeping?’

Who acts: boy, you · What happens: ask, weep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Clever Elsie. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 asked	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 asked	nsubj
3	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 weeping	punct
5	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 weeping	punct
6	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 weeping	advmod
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 weeping	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 weeping	nsubj
9	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 asked	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 weeping	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 weeping	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	boy				then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	weep	present · progressive	you						vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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: «Grimms' Fairy Tales» by Jacob Grimm, Project Gutenberg book 2591 (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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