The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 100
“Good day, my son,” answered she, “and what are you doing here, at the world’s end?”
Who acts: Good day, door · What happens: answer, do · To what, where: door, end · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good day, door), 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 | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 day | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 doing | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 doing | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 doing | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 doing | obj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 doing | aux |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 doing | nsubj |
| 17 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 answered | parataxis |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 doing | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 end | punct |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 world | det |
| 22 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 end | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 world | case |
| 24 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 doing | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 doing | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: ask | past | Good day | door | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present · progressive | door | here | at the world's end | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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