The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 7

‘Then why do you cry?’ he persisted.

Who acts: you, creeper · What happens: cry, persist

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, creeper), 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	_	6 cry	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 cry	advmod
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cry	advmod
4	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cry	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cry	nsubj
6	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 persisted	parataxis
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 cry	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 persisted	nsubj
10	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · do-support	you				then		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	persist	past	creeper						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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