The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 38
“Who is that?” they asked Helga.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: that, Helga · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eyes), 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 | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 that | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 that | cop |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 asked | obl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 that | punct |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Helga | Helga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | eyes = eye | Helga | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent helga=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 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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