The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 67
“When the peri opened her eyes she asked in affright: ‘Who are you?
Who acts: peri, trace, you · What happens: open, ask, be · To what, where: eyes, affright
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, 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 (peri, trace, you), 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 | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 opened | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 peri | det |
| 4 | peri | peri | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 opened | nsubj |
| 5 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | advcl |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 opened | obj |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 affright | case |
| 11 | affright | affright | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 ‘ | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 14 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 ‘ | parataxis |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Who | cop |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 Who | nsubj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | open in a quote | past | the peri | trace's eyes | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location eye=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | trace | affright | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | you | tree rules |
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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