The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 6, sentence 128
'Oh, is that your game?' asked the wolf, with a grin. '
Who acts: game · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: game, wolf
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 (game), 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 | _ | 7 game | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 game | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 game | cop |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 game | mark |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 game | nmod:poss |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 game | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 game | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 grin | punct |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 grin | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 grin | det |
| 16 | grin | grin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 grin | punct |
| 18 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 grin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your game | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | your game | the wolf | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent wolf=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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