The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 6

And the daughter listened, and said softly to her mother: “Are you speaking the truth now?”

Who acts: daughter, mother · What happens: listen, say, speak · To what, where: mother, truth · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter, mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	4 listened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 daughter	det
3	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 said	cc
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	conj
8	softly	softly	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mother	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mother	nmod:poss
11	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	16 speaking	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 speaking	punct
14	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 speaking	aux
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 speaking	nsubj
16	speaking	speak	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 truth	det
18	truth	truth	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 speaking	obj
19	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 speaking	advmod
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 speaking	punct
21	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	the daughter					vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: ask	past	the daughter not said here		daughter's mother		softly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
3	speak speech: other in a quote	present · progressive	daughter's mother = mother	the truth		now		tree rules

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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