The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 119
“To whom do these pigs belong?” he asked of the swineherd.
Who acts: fox · What happens: belong, ask · 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 (fox), 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 | _ | 7 belong | punct |
| 2 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 do | case |
| 3 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 do | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 belong | aux |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 pigs | det |
| 6 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 do | obj |
| 7 | belong | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 belong | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 belong | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 belong | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 swineherd | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 swineherd | det |
| 14 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 belong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong in a quote | present · do-support | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | fox | of the swineherd | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of swineherd=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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