The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 12
'Where is your husband?' asked Ian, and the woman answered him:
Who acts: husband, woman · What happens: be, ask, answer · To what, where: husband, Ian
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (husband, woman), 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 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 husband | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 husband | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 husband | nmod:poss |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 husband | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 husband | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Ian | Ian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 answered | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 answered | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your husband | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | your husband | Ian | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ian=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the woman | Ian | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality |
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/pg3027/6/12/