The Green Fairy Book, The Twelve Huntsmen, sentence 12

Her father said to her: ‘My dearest child, why are you so unhappy?

Who acts: father, dearest child · What happens: say, be · To what, where: love · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Huntsmen. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, dearest child), 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	Her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 father	nmod:poss
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 her	case
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 said	obl
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 unhappy	punct
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 unhappy	punct
8	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 child	nmod:poss
9	dearest	dear	ADJ	Degree=Sup	10 child	amod
10	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 unhappy	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 unhappy	punct
12	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	16 unhappy	advmod
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 unhappy	cop
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 unhappy	nsubj
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 unhappy	advmod
16	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	love's father		love				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	is	present	My dearest child					unhappy property	tree rules

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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