The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 4
“Why do you weep, old man?” said one, in a voice as clear and musical as that of the bulbul.
Who acts: you · What happens: weep, say · To what, where: one, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. 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 weep | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 weep | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 weep | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 weep | nsubj |
| 5 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weep | vocative |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 weep | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weep | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 voice | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | obl |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 clear | case |
| 18 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 musical | cc |
| 20 | musical | musical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 clear | conj |
| 21 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 musical | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 bulbul | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bulbul | det |
| 25 | bulbul | bulbul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 that | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep in a quote | present · do-support | you | old man vocative | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | one | a voice as clear | tree rules |
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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