The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 7, sentence 32
'Have you brought me much game to-day?' asked his stepmother as he entered the hall.
Who acts: you, Falcon · What happens: bring, ask, enter · To what, where: much game, me, stepmother, hall
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Falcon), 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 brought | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | nsubj |
| 4 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 brought | obj |
| 6 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 game | amod |
| 7 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 day | case |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 to | punct |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brought | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 12 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 brought | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 stepmother | nmod:poss |
| 15 | stepmother | stepmother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 entered | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 entered | nsubj |
| 18 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 hall | det |
| 20 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entered | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | you | much game | me | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination game=Theme | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | you not said here | Falcon's stepmother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stepmother=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | Falcon | the hall | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
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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