The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 4
'Who are you?' asked the king; 'and what has the Bird of Truth to do with you?'
Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask, have, do · To what, where: king, Bird
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 34. 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 | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Who | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Who | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 6 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Who | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 king | det |
| 9 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 has | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 has | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Bird | det |
| 16 | Bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 has | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Truth | case |
| 18 | Truth | Truth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Bird | nmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 Bird | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 do | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
| 24 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | have | present | the Bird of Truth | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Patient | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | the Bird of Truth not said here | with you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/4/