The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 5, sentence 46
'Are you Ian, the soldier's son?' asked he.
Who acts: you, Ian · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Ian, giant
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Ian), 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 Ian | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Ian | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Ian | nsubj |
| 4 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 son | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 soldier | det |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 soldier | case |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Ian | appos |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ian | punct |
| 11 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Ian | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | Ian | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Ian | giant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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