The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 165
‘Yes, why are you weeping?’
Who acts: you · What happens: weep
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. 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 | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 weeping | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 weeping | advmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 weeping | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 weeping | nsubj |
| 7 | weeping | weep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 weeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | present · progressive | you | 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 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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