The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 43
“Ah, little fox, but if I give you a basketful, what am I to eat?” asked the boy.
Who acts: boy · What happens: give, eat, ask · To what, where: basketful, you, little fox · 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 (boy), 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 fox | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 5 fox | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fox | amod |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 asked | cc |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 give | nsubj |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 asked | advcl |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 basketful | det |
| 13 | basketful | basketful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 give | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 eat | obj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 eat | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 eat | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 eat | mark |
| 19 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 basketful | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 eat | punct |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fox | acl:relcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 boy | det |
| 24 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the boy = boy | a basketful | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient basketful=Theme | |||
| 2 | eat in a quote | present | the boy = boy | a basketful | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the boy | little fox not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fox=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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