The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 31, sentence 57
'First tell me your name?' asked Covan softly.
Who acts: your · What happens: tell, ask, name · To what, where: name, me, Covan · 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 (your), 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 tell | punct |
| 2 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 tell | advmod |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 name | nmod:poss |
| 6 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Covan | Covan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | softly | softly | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | your name | me | first property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient name=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Covan | softly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent covan=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | name | your | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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