The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 43
Then the little sister cried and said, ‘Can you not be freed?’
Who acts: little sister · What happens: cry, say, not free · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (little sister), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 cried | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sister | det |
| 3 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sister | amod |
| 4 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 freed | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 freed | punct |
| 10 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 freed | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 freed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 freed | advmod |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 freed | aux:pass |
| 14 | freed | free | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 freed | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the little sister | then | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the little sister not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not free | can · passive | you | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source |
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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