The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 36, sentence 52
Dear mother, do you know who it is you have been talking with?'
Who acts: Dear mother, rod · What happens: know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dear mother, rod), 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 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mother | amod |
| 2 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 mother | punct |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 talking | obl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 talking | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 talking | cop |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 talking | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 talking | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 talking | aux |
| 13 | talking | talk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 know | ccomp |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 talking | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 16 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | Dear mother | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | present · perfect · progressive | rod | talk property | tree rules |
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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