The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 29

“Do what?” asked the old woman in amazement.

Who acts: old woman · What happens: do, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	_	2 Do	punct
2	Do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asked	ccomp
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 Do	obj
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Do	punct
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 woman	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 woman	amod
9	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	11 amazement	case
11	amazement	amazement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 woman	nmod
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do in a quote	infinitive							vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	the old woman						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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