The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 5
“What brings you here, my son?” asked the old woman.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: bring, ask · To what, where: son, you · 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 (old woman), 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 | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 brings | nsubj |
| 3 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 brings | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 brings | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brings | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brings | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woman | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 woman | amod |
| 14 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring in a quote | present | my son | you | here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination son=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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