The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 91
“You fools!” he cried; “why do you scream?
Who acts: You, fools · What happens: fool, cry, scream · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, fools), 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 | _ | 3 fools | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 fools | nsubj |
| 3 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fools | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fools | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cried | nsubj |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 scream | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 scream | punct |
| 10 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 scream | advmod |
| 11 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 scream | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 scream | nsubj |
| 13 | scream | scream | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fool in a quote | You | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | fools | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scream speech: express in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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