The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 102
Do you mind telling me who made them?'
Who acts: you · What happens: mind, tell, make · To what, where: me, shoes · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 mind | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 mind | nsubj |
| 3 | mind | mind | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | telling | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mind | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 telling | iobj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 made | nsubj |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 telling | ccomp |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 mind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mind | present · do-support | you | vn care-88.1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make | past | shoes = shoe | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Product |
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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