The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 8
“What is your name, madam?” asked he, much touched by this sad story.
Who acts: name · What happens: be, ask, touch · To what, where: name, king · 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 (name), 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 | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 7 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 madam | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 touched | punct |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 touched | advmod |
| 14 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 story | case |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 story | det |
| 17 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 story | amod |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 touched | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | your name | king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | touch | participle | your name not said here | by this sad story | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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