The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 27
‘Yes,’ said the Emperor; and then he wept like a little child.
Who acts: Emperor · What happens: say, weep · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Emperor), 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 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Emperor | det |
| 7 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 wept | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 wept | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 wept | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wept | nsubj |
| 12 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 13 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 child | amod |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 wept | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Emperor | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | weep | past | Emperor | then | like a little child | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: 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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