The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 25, sentence 41
'Who are you, and where do you come from?' said she to the little fish, whom the others had pushed in front.
Who acts: you, queen · What happens: be, come, say, push · To what, where: you, little fish, others, front · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, queen), 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 | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 come | cc |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 come | advmod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 come | nsubj |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 you | conj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 come | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 fish | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 fish | det |
| 18 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 fish | amod |
| 19 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 pushed | punct |
| 21 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 pushed | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 others | det |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 pushed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 pushed | aux |
| 25 | pushed | push | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 fish | acl:relcl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 front | case |
| 27 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pushed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present · do-support | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | queen | the little fish | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fish=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | push | past · perfect · passive | the others | front | the little fish obl | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme in front=Trajectory |
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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