The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 79

“But how did you cross the water?” inquired the old woman.

Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: cross, inquire · To what, where: water · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, old 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	_	11 inquired	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	6 cross	cc
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cross	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cross	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 cross	nsubj
6	cross	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 inquired	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cross	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 cross	punct
11	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 woman	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 woman	amod
14	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 inquired	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cross in a quote	past · do-support	you	the water					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
2	inquire speech: other	past	the old woman						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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