The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 73
“Who has ordered you to be hanged?” asked he.
What happens: order, hange, ask · To what, where: magician · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ordered | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | aux |
| 4 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ordered | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hanged | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hanged | aux:pass |
| 8 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 asked | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 hanged | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 hanged | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ordered | conj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order in a quote | present · perfect | magician | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hange in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | magician | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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: «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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