The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 22

“Where have you been all this time?” he asked, directly he could speak, and she told him that she had been caught in a forest fire, and had been rescued from the flames by the shepherd.

Who acts: you, snake, evil, shepherd · What happens: have, be, ask, speak, tell, catch · To what, where: time, snake, evil, forest fire, flames · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, snake, evil, shepherd), 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	_	12 asked	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	ccomp
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 time	nsubj
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 time	cop
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 time	det:predet
7	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 time	det
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 have	ccomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 have	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 asked	nsubj
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 speak	punct
14	directly	directly	ADV	_	17 speak	advmod
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 speak	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 speak	aux
17	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 told	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 told	cc
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	nsubj
21	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 told	iobj
23	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 caught	mark
24	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 caught	nsubj:pass
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 caught	aux
26	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 caught	aux:pass
27	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 told	ccomp
28	in	in	ADP	_	31 fire	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 fire	det
30	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 fire	compound
31	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 caught	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 rescued	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 rescued	cc
34	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 rescued	aux
35	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	36 rescued	aux:pass
36	rescued	rescue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 asked	conj
37	from	from	ADP	_	39 flames	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 flames	det
39	flames	flame	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 rescued	obl
40	by	by	ADP	_	42 shepherd	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 shepherd	det
42	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 rescued	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present						vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	participle	you	all time				tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	snake					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	speak speech: other	could	snake				directly property	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	past	evil		snake			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	catch	past · perfect · passive		evil		a forest fire		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
7	rescue	past · perfect · passive	the shepherd			the flames		vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from flame=Source

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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