The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 88
“What do you want, old woman?” asked Hassan, when he appeared, for he was not as polite as the others had been.
Who acts: Hassan, others · What happens: want, ask, appear, not be, be · To what, where: old woman, Hassan · 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 (Hassan, others), 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 want | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 want | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 want | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 woman | punct |
| 7 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 woman | amod |
| 8 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 want | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Hassan | Hassan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 appeared | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 appeared | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 appeared | nsubj |
| 16 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 polite | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 polite | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 polite | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 polite | cop |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 polite | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | ADV | _ | 23 polite | advmod |
| 23 | polite | polite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 appeared | conj |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 been | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 others | det |
| 26 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 been | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 been | aux |
| 28 | been | be | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 polite | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · do-support | Hassan | old woman | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme woman=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Hassan | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent hassan=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | appear | past | Hassan | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not is | past | Hassan | polite property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past · perfect | the others | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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