The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 2, sentence 87

“Well, how are you getting on?” he would ask cheerfully when he paid his visits.

Who acts: you, fox · What happens: get on, ask, pay, visit · To what, where: visits · 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 (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	_	7 getting	punct
2	Well	well	INTJ	_	7 getting	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Well	punct
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 getting	advmod
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 getting	aux
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 getting	nsubj
7	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 ask	csubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 getting	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 getting	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 ask	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 ask	aux
13	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	cheerfully	cheerfully	ADV	_	13 ask	advmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 paid	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 paid	nsubj
17	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 ask	advcl
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 visits	nmod:poss
19	visits	visit	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 paid	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ask	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get on in a quote	present · progressive	you			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	would	fox		cheerfully property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pay	past	fox	fox's visits		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset
4	visit		fox			nom visit «act transitive»: 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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