Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen, The Buckwheat, sentence 33
Wherefore do you weep, old willow-tree?"
Who acts: you · What happens: weep · To what, where: old willow tree
This is a sentence of «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, The Buckwheat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Wherefore | wherefore | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 weep | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 weep | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 weep | nsubj |
| 4 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 tree | punct |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 tree | amod |
| 7 | willow | willow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 willow | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 weep | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 weep | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 weep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present · do-support | you | old willow tree | wherefore property | 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: «Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen» by H. C. Andersen, Project Gutenberg book 27200 (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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