The Violet Fairy Book, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, part 1, sentence 10

‘What secret grief is troubling you?

Who acts: secret grief · What happens: trouble · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Girl Who Pretended to Be a Boy, 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 (secret grief), 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	_	6 troubling	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 grief	det
3	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grief	amod
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 troubling	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 troubling	aux
6	troubling	trouble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 troubling	obj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 troubling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trouble	present · progressive	what secret grief	you					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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.

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