The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 86

'Have you no pity for a poor mother?' asked the fox, putting her tail to her eyes, but peeping slily out of them all the same.

Who acts: you · What happens: have, ask, put, peep · To what, where: pity, fox, tail · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Have	nsubj
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 pity	det
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 mother	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 mother	det
8	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mother	amod
9	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pity	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
11	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 putting	punct
16	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 asked	advcl
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 tail	nmod:poss
18	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 putting	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 eyes	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 eyes	nmod:poss
21	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 putting	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 same	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 same	cc
24	peeping	peep	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 same	csubj
25	slily	slily	ADV	_	24 peeping	advmod
26	out	out	ADP	_	28 them	case
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 peeping	obl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 same	det:predet
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 same	det
31	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 asked	parataxis
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	no pity		for a poor mother	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pity=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past			the fox		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic
3	put	gerund		snarl's tail		to snarl's eyes	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent tail=Goal
4	peep	gerund				out eyes = eye; slily property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent out they=Theme

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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