The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 31
“What have you got there?” she asked, and the marten told his story and begged the hare to help them pull.
Who acts: you, thing, marten, hare, sorts · What happens: get, ask, tell, beg, help, pull · To what, where: story, sorts · 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, thing, marten, hare), 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 | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 got | obj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 got | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 told | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 marten | det |
| 14 | marten | marten | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 story | nmod:poss |
| 17 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 told | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 begged | cc |
| 19 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 told | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 hare | det |
| 21 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 begged | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 begged | advcl |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 help | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the marten | marten's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | the hare | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | help | to-infinitive | the hare not said here | sorts = sort | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | pull | infinitive | sorts = sort not said here | vn slide-11.2 «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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