The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 55

'Poor child,' answered the dove, 'who has sent you on such a useless quest?'

Who acts: Poor child · What happens: answer, send · To what, where: dove, you, useless quest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Poor child), 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 child	punct
2	Poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 child	amod
3	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
5	'	'	PUNCT	_	3 child	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dove	det
8	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
10	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 sent	nsubj
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 sent	aux
13	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 answered	ccomp
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 sent	iobj
15	on	on	ADP	_	19 quest	case
16	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	19 quest	det:predet
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 quest	det
18	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 quest	amod
19	quest	quest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sent	obl
20	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct
21	'	'	PUNCT	_	13 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	Poor child	the dove					tree rules
2	send	present · perfect			you	such useless quest			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme

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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