More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 3, sentence 65
"Might I be axing to know your honour's name?"
Who acts: Tom, your, honour · What happens: ax, know, honour, name · To what, where: name
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tom, your, honour), 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 | _ | 5 axing | punct |
| 2 | Might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 axing | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 axing | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 axing | aux |
| 5 | axing | ax | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 know | mark |
| 7 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 axing | xcomp |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 honour | nmod:poss |
| 9 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 10 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 9 honour | case |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 know | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 axing | punct |
| 13 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 axing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ax in a quote | might · progressive | Tom | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | know in a quote | to-infinitive | Tom not said here | your honour's name | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer name=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | honour in a quote | your | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | name in a quote | your honour | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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