The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 54
“Where are you going?” asked the boy, who by this time was tired of wild cherries, and was thinking of his dinner.
Who acts: you, boy · What happens: go, ask, be, think · 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, boy), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 boy | det |
| 10 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 tired | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 tired | nsubj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 tired | obl |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 tired | cop |
| 17 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 boy | amod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 cherries | case |
| 19 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cherries | amod |
| 20 | cherries | cherry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 tired | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 thinking | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 thinking | cc |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 thinking | aux |
| 24 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 dinner | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 dinner | nmod:poss |
| 27 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 thinking | obl |
| 28 | . | . | 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 | the boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the boy | time | of wild cherries; tired property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | past · progressive | the boy not said here | of boy's dinner | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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