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The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 84

“What trade do you wish to follow, my son?” he asked in a friendly voice, stopping as he did so in front of the youth.

Who acts: trade · What happens: wish, follow, ask, stop, do · To what, where: friendly voice, front · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (trade), 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

punctdetnsubjauxnsubjccompmarkxcomppunctnmod:possvocativepunctpunctnsubjcasedetamodoblpunctadvclmarknsubjccompadvmodcaseoblcasedetnmodpunctroot“PUNCTWhatDETtradeNOUNdoAUXyouPRONwishVERBtoPARTfollowVERB,PUNCTmyPRONsonNOUN?PUNCT”PUNCThePRONaskedVERBinADPaDETfriendlyADJvoiceNOUN,PUNCTstoppingVERBasSCONJhePRONdidVERBsoADVinADPfrontNOUNofADPtheDETyouthNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1“"PUNCT_6 wishpunct
2WhatwhatDETPronType=Int3 tradedet
3tradetradeNOUNNumber=Sing6 wishnsubj
4dodoAUXMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 wishaux
5youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs6 wishnsubj
6wishwishVERBVerbForm=Inf15 askedccomp
7totoPART_8 followmark
8followfollowVERBVerbForm=Inf6 wishxcomp
9,,PUNCT_11 sonpunct
10mymyPRONCase=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 sonnmod:poss
11sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing6 wishvocative
12??PUNCT_6 wishpunct
13”"PUNCT_6 wishpunct
14hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs15 askednsubj
15askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
16ininADP_19 voicecase
17aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art19 voicedet
18friendlyfriendlyADJDegree=Pos19 voiceamod
19voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing15 askedobl
20,,PUNCT_21 stoppingpunct
21stoppingstopVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part15 askedadvcl
22asasSCONJ_24 didmark
23hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs24 didnsubj
24diddoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin21 stoppingccomp
25sosoADV_24 didadvmod
26ininADP_27 frontcase
27frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing24 didobl
28ofofADP_30 youthcase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 youthdet
30youthyouthNOUNNumber=Sing27 frontnmod
31..PUNCT_15 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1wish in a quotepresent · do-supportwhat trademy son vocativevn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2follow not said to happen, in a quoteto-infinitivewhat trade not said herevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3ask speech: askpasttradea friendly voicevn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4stopgerundtrade not said herevn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
5dopasttradefront of the youthvn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «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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