The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33, sentence 18
As she entered the house she asked, as the first one had done: “Well, Sister Ingiborg, is Prince Sigurd at home?”
Who acts: floor, first one · What happens: enter, ask, do, be · To what, where: house, Sister Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (floor, first one), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 entered | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 entered | nsubj |
| 3 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | obj |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 house | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 one | det |
| 11 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 one | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 entered | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 entered | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sigurd | punct |
| 17 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 24 Sigurd | discourse |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Well | punct |
| 19 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Prince | compound |
| 20 | Ingiborg | Ingiborg | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sister | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sister | punct |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 Prince | cop |
| 23 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Sigurd | nmod:desc |
| 24 | Sigurd | Sigurd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 entered | parataxis |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 home | case |
| 26 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Sigurd | nmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sigurd | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 Sigurd | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | past | floor | the house | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | floor | the house not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent house=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect | the first one | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Sister Prince | tree rules |
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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