The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 35, sentence 63

'Have you, my son; and what was he like?' asked the mother, as she took off the child's sheepskin coat and shook it on the doorstep.

Who acts: you, bundle, mother · What happens: have, be, ask, take off, shake · To what, where: mother, sheepskin coat, coat, doorstep · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, bundle, mother), 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Have	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 you	vocative
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 like	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 like	obj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 like	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 like	nsubj
12	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Have	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
14	'	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 mother	det
17	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 asked	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 took	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 took	nsubj
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	parataxis
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 took	compound:prt
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 child	det
24	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 coat	nmod:poss
25	's	's	PART	_	24 child	case
26	sheepskin	sheepskin	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 coat	amod
27	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 shook	cc
29	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 shook	obj
31	on	on	ADP	_	33 doorstep	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 doorstep	det
33	doorstep	doorstep	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 shook	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	present	you					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	bundle				like property	tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past			the mother			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient clause=Topic
4	take off	past	mother	the child's sheepskin coat				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme
5	shake	past	mother not said here	coat		the doorstep		vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent it=Theme on doorstep=Trajectory

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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