The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 44
“What are you cooking?” asked he, “give me some of it.”
Who acts: Paul · What happens: cook, ask, give · To what, where: Paul, some, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Paul), 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 | _ | 5 cooking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 cooking | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cooking | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 cooking | nsubj |
| 5 | cooking | cook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooking | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cooking | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 give | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 it | case |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 some | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook in a quote | present · progressive | Paul | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Paul | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | give in a quote | infinitive | some | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient some=Theme |
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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