The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 38

“What shall we eat now?” asked the wolf again, when he had recovered from his surprise.

Who acts: we, wolf, squirrel · What happens: eat, ask, recover, surprise · To what, where: surprise · 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 (we, wolf, squirrel), 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 eat	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 eat	obj
3	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 eat	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 eat	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	again	again	ADV	_	9 asked	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 recovered	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 recovered	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 recovered	nsubj
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 recovered	aux
17	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 asked	parataxis
18	from	from	ADP	_	20 surprise	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 surprise	nmod:poss
20	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 recovered	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	eat in a quote	shall	we		now	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the wolf		again	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	recover	past · perfect	squirrel	squirrel's surprise		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from surprise=Source
4	surprise		squirrel			nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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