The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 11
“What is the matter with you, godfather?” asked he, “and where are you going?”
Who acts: bear · What happens: be, godfather, ask, go · To what, where: matter, bear · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 godfather | punct |
| 9 | godfather | godfather | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | parataxis |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 godfather | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 godfather | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 going | cc |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 going | advmod |
| 18 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 going | aux |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 going | nsubj |
| 20 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 20 going | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | with bear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | godfather in a quote | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | bear | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | bear | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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