The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 51

‘What is troubling you so much?’ she asked him, and then the youth told her everything.

Who acts: mother, youth · What happens: trouble, ask, tell · To what, where: you, frog, everything · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother, youth), 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	_	4 troubling	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 troubling	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 troubling	aux
4	troubling	trouble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 asked	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 troubling	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	4 troubling	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 troubling	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 troubling	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	nsubj
11	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asked	iobj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 told	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 told	cc
15	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 told	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 told	nsubj
18	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asked	conj
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 everything	nmod:poss
20	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	18 told	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	trouble	present · progressive		you			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past	mother		frog		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	past	the youth	everything		then	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent everything=Recipient

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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg641/36/51/