The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 56
“What did you do last night after you went home?” suddenly asked the girl one evening.
Who acts: you, girl · What happens: do, go, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, girl), 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 night | amod |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 went | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | advcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 went | advmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 14 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 15 asked | advmod |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 girl | det |
| 17 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 evening | nummod |
| 19 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past · do-support | you | night | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go in a quote | past | you | home property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | evening | suddenly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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