The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 44
But may I ask where are you going?”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: ask, go · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 ask | cc |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 going | advmod |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 ask | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | I | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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