The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 106

Each time he asked: “Are you there?” the answer would come: “Yes, of course, where else should I be?”

Who acts: stag, you, answer · What happens: ask, be, come · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stag, you, answer), 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	Each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	2 time	det
2	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 asked	nsubj
4	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 come	punct
6	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct
7	Are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 there	cop
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 there	nsubj
9	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 come	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct
11	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 there	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 answer	det
13	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	nsubj
14	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 asked	ccomp
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 course	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 course	punct
18	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	21 course	discourse
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 course	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 course	case
21	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 asked	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 be	punct
23	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	27 be	advmod
24	else	else	ADV	_	23 where	advmod
25	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 be	aux
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 be	nsubj
27	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 course	parataxis
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	27 be	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	21 course	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	stag	time	of course	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of course=Recipient clause=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	you		there property	tree rules
3	come	would	the answer			tree rules
4	be in a quote	should	stag			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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