The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 21
'Why did you summon me?' asked the Dog of Maol-mor.
Who acts: you · What happens: summon, ask · To what, where: me, Dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 5 summon | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 summon | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 summon | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 summon | nsubj |
| 5 | summon | summon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 summon | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 summon | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 summon | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Dog | det |
| 11 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mor | case |
| 13 | Maol | Maol | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 mor | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 Maol | punct |
| 15 | mor | mor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Dog | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | past · do-support | you | me | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Dog of Maol mor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent dog=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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