The Red Fairy Book, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk, sentence 68
‘You are grown old and stupid,’ cried the lady in her loud tones.
Who acts: lady · What happens: grow, cry, intonate · To what, where: You, lady, loud tones
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Wonderful Growth of the Beanstalk. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lady), 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 | _ | 4 grown | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 grown | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | aux:pass |
| 4 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grown | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stupid | cc |
| 7 | stupid | stupid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 old | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 cried | punct |
| 10 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grown | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 lady | det |
| 12 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cried | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tones | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tones | nmod:poss |
| 15 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 tones | amod |
| 16 | tones | tone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 cried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 grown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present · passive | You | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the lady | lady's loud tones | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lady=Topic | ||||
| 3 | intonate | lady | nom tone «communication transitive»: poss=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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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