The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 26, sentence 81
'I hope you are rested?' asked the owl politely.
Who acts: I · What happens: hope, rest, ask · To what, where: you, owl · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (I), 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 | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 rested | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rested | aux:pass |
| 6 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 rested | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 rested | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rested | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 owl | det |
| 11 | owl | owl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | rest | present · passive | you | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the owl | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owl=Recipient |
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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