The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 55
‘Oh,’ said he, ‘why is faithlessness so great in the world?’ and he sat down in sorrow and trouble, not knowing what to do.
Who acts: Hunter · What happens: say, be, sit down, not know, do · To what, where: faithlessness, sorrow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hunter), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 faithlessness | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 faithlessness | punct |
| 9 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 faithlessness | advmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 faithlessness | cop |
| 11 | faithlessness | faithlessness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 great | advmod |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 faithlessness | amod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 world | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 world | det |
| 16 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 great | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 faithlessness | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 faithlessness | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 sat | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sat | nsubj |
| 21 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 22 | down | down | ADP | _ | 21 sat | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 sorrow | case |
| 24 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sat | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 trouble | cc |
| 26 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 sorrow | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 knowing | punct |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 knowing | advmod |
| 29 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sat | advcl |
| 30 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 32 do | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 knowing | xcomp |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Hunter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | faithlessness | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | sit down | past | Hunter | sorrow and trouble | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in sorrow=Location | ||||
| 4 | not know | gerund | Hunter not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | Hunter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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