The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 7
‘Why are you sad and cast down, fair Queen?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, cast down
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 sad | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 sad | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sad | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sad | nsubj |
| 5 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 cast | cc |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sad | conj |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 cast | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Queen | punct |
| 10 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Queen | amod |
| 11 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sad | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | fair Queen obl; sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast down | participle | you not said here | vn build-26.1 «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 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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