The Green Fairy Book, The Three Dogs, sentence 19
‘Coachman, what’s the meaning of all this grief?’ asked the shepherd.
Who acts: Coachman · What happens: ask, mean · To what, where: shepherd, grief
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dogs. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Coachman), 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 | _ | 2 Coachman | punct |
| 2 | Coachman | coachman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ’s | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 ’s | nsubj |
| 5 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Coachman | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 meaning | det |
| 7 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ’s | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 grief | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 grief | det:predet |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 grief | det |
| 11 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 meaning | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coachman | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Coachman | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shepherd | det |
| 16 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Coachman | the shepherd | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shepherd=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | mean | all grief | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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