The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 36

'But how are you going to put the rope over her head?' asked she.

Who acts: you · What happens: go, put, ask · To what, where: rope, head, cow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 39. 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	_	6 going	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 going	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 going	advmod
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	16 asked	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 put	mark
8	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rope	det
10	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obj
11	over	over	ADP	_	13 head	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 head	nmod:poss
13	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 put	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
15	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 going	punct
16	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 asked	iobj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	go	present · progressive	you				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	put	to-infinitive	you not said here	the rope		cow's head	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent rope=Theme over head=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past			cow		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic

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/pg3027/39/36/