The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 98
“How pale you look,” she cried, “has anything hurt you?
Who acts: you, sound · What happens: look, cry, have, hurt · To what, where: anything, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, sound), 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 look | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 pale | advmod |
| 3 | pale | pale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 look | xcomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 look | nsubj |
| 5 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 look | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 has | punct |
| 12 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | conj |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 has | obj |
| 14 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 anything | acl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 hurt | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look in a quote | present | you | pale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | sound | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | sound not said here | anything | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hurt in a quote | participle | you | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Patient |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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