The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 22
‘Thou, my cherub,’ says she, ‘whither so lonesome, with arching tail, on this muddy road?’
Who acts: Thou · What happens: cherub, say, arch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thou), 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 | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 2 | Thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 cherub | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cherub | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 cherub | nmod:poss |
| 5 | cherub | cherub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 says | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 cherub | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 says | punct |
| 8 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 says | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 she | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 whither | punct |
| 12 | whither | whither | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 she | conj |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 lonesome | advmod |
| 14 | lonesome | lonesome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 whither | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tail | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 tail | case |
| 17 | arching | arch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 tail | amod |
| 18 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lonesome | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 road | punct |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 road | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 road | det |
| 22 | muddy | muddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 road | amod |
| 23 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lonesome | conj |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 lonesome | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 lonesome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherub | Thou | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | arch | gerund | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: 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 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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