The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 28
“Are you fond of milk?” asked he.
Who acts: puma · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: puma · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (puma), 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 fond | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fond | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 fond | nsubj |
| 4 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 milk | case |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fond | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 fond | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | puma | of milk; fond property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | puma | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient 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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