The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 76
“Where are the two young ones who are not in the nest?” asked he.
Who acts: two young ones · What happens: be, not be, ask · To what, where: two young ones, nest, magpie · 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 (two young ones), 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 | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 ones | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ones | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ones | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 ones | nummod |
| 6 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ones | amod |
| 7 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 nest | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 nest | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 nest | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 nest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 nest | det |
| 13 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ones | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ones | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 ones | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the two young ones | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the two young ones | the nest | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the two young ones | magpie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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