The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 17
The prince addressed Mihr-afruz: “What is the question you ask?”
Who acts: prince, you · What happens: address, be, ask · To what, where: Mihr afruz, question · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (prince, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | nsubj |
| 3 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mihr | Mihr | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 afruz | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Mihr | punct |
| 6 | afruz | afruz | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | obj |
| 7 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 addressed | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 question | punct |
| 9 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 question | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 question | cop |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 question | det |
| 12 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 addressed | parataxis |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 question | acl:relcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 question | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 question | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | the prince | Mihr afruz | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the question | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | you | the question not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient |
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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