The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 107
'What gods or men are protecting you?' she asked, with a frown. '
Who acts: gods, story · What happens: protect, ask · To what, where: you, frown · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gods, story), 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 | _ | 7 protecting | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 protecting | obj |
| 3 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 protecting | nsubj |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 5 men | cc |
| 5 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gods | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 protecting | aux |
| 7 | protecting | protect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 protecting | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 protecting | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 protecting | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 frown | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 frown | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 frown | det |
| 16 | frown | frown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 frown | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 frown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | protect | present · progressive | gods or men | you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | story | a frown | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent frown=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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