The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 92
“How do you feel this morning?” asked the woman, coming in on tip-toe when her house-work was finished.
Who acts: you, woman, branch · What happens: feel, ask, come in, finish, work · To what, where: tip toe, house work · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, woman, branch), 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 feel | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 feel | advmod |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 feel | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 morning | det |
| 7 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 feel | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 feel | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 coming | punct |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 toe | case |
| 17 | tip | tip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 toe | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 tip | punct |
| 19 | toe | toe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 20 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 finished | advmod |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 work | nmod:poss |
| 22 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 work | compound |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 house | punct |
| 24 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 finished | nsubj:pass |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 finished | aux:pass |
| 26 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 coming | advcl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel in a quote | present · do-support | you | morning | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | come in | gerund | the woman not said here | tip toe | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on toe=Location | ||||
| 4 | finish | past · passive | branch's house work | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | work | branch | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=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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