Fifty Famous Stories Retold, King Alfred and the Beggar., sentence 17
"Who are you?" he asked of the old man.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, King Alfred and the Beggar.. 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 | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 man | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 man | amod |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | of the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of man=Recipient |
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: «Fifty Famous Stories Retold» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 18442 (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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