The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 34, sentence 98
'Have you returned with empty hands?' asked the old man, as his son opened the door.
Who acts: you, son · What happens: return, ask, open · To what, where: old man, door
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, son), 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 | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 returned | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hands | case |
| 6 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 hands | amod |
| 7 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 opened | punct |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 opened | mark |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | nsubj |
| 18 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 door | det |
| 20 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 opened | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present · perfect | you | with empty hands | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | open | past | man's son | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/34/98/