The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 48
“Who is there so late?” asked the old woman, thrusting her head out of the window.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: be, ask, thrust · To what, where: head, window · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman), 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 | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 late | advmod |
| 6 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 is | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thrusting | punct |
| 14 | thrusting | thrust | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 head | nmod:poss |
| 16 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrusting | obj |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 window | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 window | det |
| 20 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 thrusting | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | there | late property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | thrust | gerund | the old woman not said here | Maria's head | the window | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme out window=Initial_Location |
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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