The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 128
“Well, have you found out which of them is dead?” asked the Sultan.
Who acts: Sultan · What happens: find out, be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sultan), 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 | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 have | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 have | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 asked | parataxis |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 found | compound:prt |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dead | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 which | obl |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 dead | cop |
| 12 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Sultan | det |
| 17 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out in a quote | present · perfect | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | dead property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Sultan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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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