The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 105
“Do you understand how to howl?” said the bear.
Who acts: you, bear · What happens: understand, howl, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bear), 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 understand | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 understand | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 understand | nsubj |
| 4 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 howl | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 howl | mark |
| 7 | howl | howl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 understand | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 understand | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bear | det |
| 12 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | understand in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | howl in a quote | to-infinitive | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the bear | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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