The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 48
“What am I to do?” she asked, when, after clapping her hands, the old woman appeared before her.
Who acts: Thakane, old woman · What happens: do, ask, clap, appear · To what, where: hands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Thakane, 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 do | obj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 do | mark |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clapping | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 clapping | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 clapping | punct |
| 14 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 15 clapping | mark |
| 15 | clapping | clap | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hands | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 clapping | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appeared | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 20 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 appeared | nsubj |
| 22 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | conj |
| 23 | before | before | ADP | _ | 24 her | case |
| 24 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 appeared | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do not said to happen, in a quote | present | Thakane | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Thakane | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | clap | gerund | Thakane's hands | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hand=Theme | |||||
| 4 | appear | past | the old woman | before Thakane | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before she=Location |
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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