The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 1
'What am I to do now?' he asked the old man, who soon came back to see how things had turned out.
Who acts: I, he, old man · What happens: do, ask, come back, see, turn out · To what, where: old man, things · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, he, old man), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 do | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 came | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 came | nsubj |
| 17 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 came | advmod |
| 18 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 man | acl:relcl |
| 19 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 came | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 see | mark |
| 21 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 came | advcl |
| 22 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 turned | advmod |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 turned | aux |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 see | ccomp |
| 26 | out | out | ADP | _ | 25 turned | compound:prt |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do not said to happen | present | I | now | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | he | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | come back | past | the old man | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | to-infinitive | the old man not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | turn out | past · perfect · passive | things | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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