The Green Fairy Book, The Enchanted Ring, sentence 98
Rosimond wept at these words, and then asked:
Who acts: Rosimond · What happens: weep, ask · To what, where: words
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Rosimond), 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 | Rosimond | Rosimond | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wept | nsubj |
| 2 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wept | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 asked | advmod |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wept | conj |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weep | past | Rosimond | this words | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Rosimond not said here | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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