The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 118
“Whose cattle are these, and why are they here?” he asked; and his son told him the story.
Who acts: cattle, son · What happens: be, ask, tell · To what, where: these, story, herd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cattle, son), 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 | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 2 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 3 cattle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 these | cop |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 cattle | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 here | cc |
| 8 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 here | advmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 here | cop |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 here | nsubj |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cattle | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 here | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 told | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 told | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | nsubj |
| 20 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 told | iobj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 story | det |
| 23 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 told | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | these | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | cattle | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | cattle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | herd's son | the story | herd | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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