The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 36

'Yes, I am; but tell me, why are you weeping?'

Who acts: you · What happens: tell, weep · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. 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	'	'	PUNCT	_	5 am	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 am	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 am	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 am	nsubj
5	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 tell	advcl
6	;	;	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 tell	cc
8	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 tell	iobj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 weeping	punct
11	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 weeping	advmod
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 weeping	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 weeping	nsubj
14	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 tell	ccomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct
16	'	'	PUNCT	_	8 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient 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: «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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