The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 87
“Do you happen to have an extra pair of eyes anywhere?” asked the fox.
Who acts: you, fox · What happens: happen, have, ask · To what, where: extra pair · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, fox), 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 happen | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 have | mark |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 happen | xcomp |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pair | det |
| 8 | extra | extra | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pair | amod |
| 9 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 eyes | case |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 pair | nmod |
| 12 | anywhere | anywhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 have | advmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fox | det |
| 17 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen in a quote | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | have in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a extra pair of eyes | anywhere property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pair=Patient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the fox | 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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