The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 137
“Where is Pivi?” asked the two pretty girls.
Who acts: Pivi · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Pivi, two pretty girls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pivi), 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 | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 Pivi | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Pivi | cop |
| 4 | Pivi | Pivi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pivi | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Pivi | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 girls | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 girls | nummod |
| 10 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girls | amod |
| 11 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Pivi | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Pivi | the two pretty girls | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent girl=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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