English Fairy Tales, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold., sentence 14

“How pale you are this morning, my dear.”

Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: pale morning

This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Be Bold, Be Bold, But Not Too Bold.. 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 morning	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 pale	advmod
3	pale	pale	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	amod
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 morning	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 morning	cop
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 morning	det
7	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 dear	punct
9	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 dear	nmod:poss
10	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 morning	conj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 morning	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 morning	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present	you	this pale morning					tree rules
2	be in a quote		you not said here						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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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