The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 98
“I was wondering why you were filling the basket,” replied the prince.
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: wonder, fill, reply · To what, where: basket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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 | _ | 4 wondering | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 wondering | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 wondering | aux |
| 4 | wondering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 filling | advmod |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 filling | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 filling | aux |
| 8 | filling | fill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 wondering | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 basket | det |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filling | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 wondering | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wondering | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | past · progressive | the prince = prince | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fill in a quote | past · progressive | you | the basket | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent basket=Patient | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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