The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 68
“Can I do anything for you, Father Grumbler?” asked the innkeeper’s wife in her softest voice.
Who acts: wife · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: anything, softest voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 do | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Father | punct |
| 9 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 do | advcl |
| 10 | Grumbler | Grumbler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Father | flat |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 do | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 innkeeper | det |
| 15 | innkeeper | innkeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wife | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 innkeeper | case |
| 17 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 voice | case |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 voice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | softest | soft | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 voice | amod |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | the innkeeper's wife = wife | anything | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the innkeeper's wife | wife's softest voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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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