The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 51
“Where is my wife?” asked Peter, when he reached home.
Who acts: wife, Peter · What happens: be, ask, reach · To what, where: wife, Peter · 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 (wife, Peter), 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 | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 wife | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wife | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wife | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reached | punct |
| 11 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 reached | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reached | nsubj |
| 13 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 reached | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | my wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | my wife | Peter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | reach | past | Peter | home property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «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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