The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5, sentence 45
“Must you really go back to that dreadful place?” she asked wistfully.
Who acts: you, room · What happens: go back, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, room), 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 go | punct |
| 2 | Must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 go | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 place | det |
| 9 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | parataxis |
| 15 | wistfully | wistfully | ADV | _ | 14 asked | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go back in a quote | must | you | to that dreadful place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | room | wistfully property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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