The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 1

'What is it you want now?' asked the parrot; and the giant answered:

Who acts: it, giant · What happens: be, ask, answer · To what, where: parrot

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, giant), 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 want	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 want	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 want	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 want	nsubj
6	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	reparandum
7	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 want	advmod
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
9	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 want	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 parrot	det
12	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 answered	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 giant	det
16	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 answered	nsubj
17	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	parataxis
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it		now	want property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past		the parrot			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent parrot=Recipient
3	answer speech: assert	past	the giant				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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