The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 70

'What sort of a frog can you be that knows the language of mortals?' asked the queen in her turn. '

Who acts: you, sort · What happens: be, ask, sort · To what, where: queen, turn, frog

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 (you, sort), 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	_	18 asked	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 sort	det
3	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 frog	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 frog	det
6	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sort	nmod
7	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 knows	aux
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 knows	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 knows	cop
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 knows	nsubj
11	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 sort	acl:relcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 language	det
13	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knows	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 mortals	case
15	mortals	mortal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 language	nmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
17	'	'	PUNCT	_	11 knows	punct
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 queen	det
20	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 turn	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 turn	nmod:poss
23	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 asked	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct
25	'	'	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	can	you				know property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	what sort of a frog		the queen	frog's turn		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
3	sort			a frog				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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