The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 78
On being asked who they were, the eldest said, bowing low:
Who acts: eldest, brothers · What happens: ask, be, say, bow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eldest, brothers), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 asked | mark |
| 2 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | aux:pass |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 said | advcl |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 who | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 who | cop |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 eldest | det |
| 9 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bowing | punct |
| 12 | bowing | bow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 13 | low | low | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 bowing | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | gerund · passive | the eldest not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | brothers = brother | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the eldest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | bow | gerund | the eldest not said here | low property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP 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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