The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 75
“But where is the father of this maiden—why do you not ask him for her hand?
Who acts: you · What happens: be, not ask · To what, where: father
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. 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 | _ | 9 maiden | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 where | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 father | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 father | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 father | det |
| 6 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 maiden | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 this | case |
| 8 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 father | nmod |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 ask | punct |
| 11 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 ask | advmod |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ask | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 ask | advmod |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 maiden | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 hand | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 hand | nmod:poss |
| 19 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ask | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the father | of this | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not ask speech: ask in a quote | present · do-support | you | father | for maiden's hand | 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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