The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 28
'Well, what have I got to do?' he asked impatiently, drawing his mother aside so that no one could overhear them.
Who acts: I, son, one · What happens: get, do, ask, draw, overhear · To what, where: mother, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, son, 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 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 got | obj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | aux |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 got | xcomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | impatiently | impatiently | ADV | _ | 13 asked | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drawing | punct |
| 16 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 mother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawing | obj |
| 19 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 16 drawing | advmod |
| 20 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 25 overhear | mark |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 so | fixed |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 one | det |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 overhear | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 overhear | aux |
| 25 | overhear | overhear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 drawing | advcl |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 overhear | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | son | impatiently property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | draw | gerund | son not said here | son's mother | aside property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | |||
| 5 | overhear | could | no one | clothes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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