The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 27, sentence 74
'But you, friend frog, you are not one of these wicked people, I am sure?' asked the queen.
Who acts: you, I, friend frog · What happens: frog, not be, be, ask · To what, where: one, queen
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, I, friend frog), 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 | _ | 22 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 frog | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 frog | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 frog | punct |
| 5 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frog | compound |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 one | punct |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 one | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 one | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 one | advmod |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 frog | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 people | case |
| 13 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 people | det |
| 14 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 people | amod |
| 15 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 one | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 sure | nsubj |
| 18 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sure | cop |
| 19 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 frog | parataxis |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 21 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 sure | punct |
| 22 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 queen | det |
| 24 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 asked | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | frog | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not is a | present | you | one | of this wicked people | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | present | I | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | friend frog | the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/27/74/