The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 81

‘Why are you crying?’ he asked; ‘it makes you look so ugly!

Who acts: you, Gerda, splinter · What happens: cry, ask, make, look · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Gerda, splinter), 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 crying	punct
2	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 crying	advmod
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 crying	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 crying	nsubj
5	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 crying	punct
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	13 makes	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 makes	nsubj
13	makes	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 makes	obj
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 makes	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 ugly	advmod
17	ugly	ugly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 look	xcomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	present · progressive	you			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	Gerda			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	make	present	splinter	you		tree rules
4	look	infinitive	you not said here		ugly property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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