The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 4

“Can you hear now?” she asked.

Who acts: you, mermaid · What happens: hear, ask · 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 (you, mermaid), 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	_	4 hear	punct
2	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 hear	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hear	nsubj
4	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 hear	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 hear	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear in a quote	can	you				now		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past	mermaid						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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