The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 41
If anyone asked questions, he only replied with an important air of mystery that he had his own reasons for not riding.
Who acts: anyone, Prince · What happens: ask, reply, have, not ride · To what, where: questions, own reasons
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anyone, Prince), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 asked | mark |
| 2 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 4 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 replied | advmod |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 air | case |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 air | det |
| 11 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 air | amod |
| 12 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mystery | case |
| 14 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 air | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 had | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 had | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 reasons | nmod:poss |
| 19 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 reasons | amod |
| 20 | reasons | reason | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 had | obj |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 riding | mark |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 riding | advmod |
| 23 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 had | advcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | past | anyone | questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | Prince | with a important air of mystery | vn respond-113 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent with air=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Prince | Prince's own reasons | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not ride | gerund | Prince not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent 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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