The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 1
“Where are you going?” asked he, for it was not the first time he had seen him.
Who acts: you, it, he · What happens: go, ask, not be, see · To what, where: he, him · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, it, he), 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 | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 going | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 going | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 going | nsubj |
| 5 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 going | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seen | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 time | case |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 time | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 time | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 time | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 time | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 time | amod |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seen | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 seen | aux |
| 20 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 seen | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | he | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is | past | it | for the first time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | see | past · perfect | he | him = he | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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