The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 39, sentence 8
When he got home his parents asked him what he had been doing and where he had got the fine clothes he wore.
Who acts: eye, parents · What happens: get, ask, do, wear · To what, where: eye, fine clothes · 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 (eye, parents), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | advcl |
| 4 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 got | advmod |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 parents | nmod:poss |
| 6 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 doing | obj |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 doing | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 doing | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 doing | aux |
| 13 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 got | cc |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 got | advmod |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 got | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 got | aux |
| 18 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 clothes | det |
| 20 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 clothes | amod |
| 21 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 got | obj |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 wore | nsubj |
| 23 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | eye | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | eye's parents | eye | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do | past · perfect · progressive | eye | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | get | past · perfect | eye | the fine clothes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer clothes=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | wear | past | eye | the fine clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
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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