The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 101
He asked her name and she answered that it was Ingiborg, and seemed surprised to see the king there all alone.
Who acts: boy, queen, name · What happens: ask, answer, be, seem, see, name · To what, where: name, Ingiborg, king · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, queen, name), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 name | nmod:poss |
| 4 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 answered | cc |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 answered | nsubj |
| 7 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 Ingiborg | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 Ingiborg | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Ingiborg | cop |
| 11 | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 answered | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seemed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seemed | cc |
| 14 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 see | mark |
| 17 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 see | obj |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 see | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | ADV | _ | 22 alone | advmod |
| 22 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 17 see | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | boy | queen's name | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | queen | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | name | Ingiborg | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seem | past | surprised property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | the king | there | alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | name | queen | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=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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