The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 16, sentence 49
'What do you want?' asked she, at the same time signing to her daughter to stir the large pot on the fire.
Who acts: you, same time · What happens: want, ask, sign, stir · To what, where: heart, daughter, large pot, fire · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, same time), 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 | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 15 | signing | sign | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 time | acl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 daughter | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 signing | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 stir | mark |
| 20 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 signing | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pot | det |
| 22 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 pot | amod |
| 23 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stir | obj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 fire | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fire | det |
| 26 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stir | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | heart | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | sign | gerund | the same time not said here | heart's daughter | vn instr_communication-37.4.1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to daughter=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | stir | to-infinitive | the same time not said here | the large pot | the fire | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus pot=Experiencer |
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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