The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 94

“Where have you come from, with that fine red cock in your basket,” asked she, for the bird was so big that the lid would not shut down properly.

Who acts: wife, bird, lid · What happens: come, ask, be, not shut down · To what, where: wife · 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, bird, lid), 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	_	18 asked	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 have	advmod
3	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
5	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 asked	parataxis
6	from	from	ADP	_	5 come	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 cock	punct
8	with	with	ADP	_	12 cock	case
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 cock	nsubj
10	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cock	amod
11	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 cock	amod
12	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 come	obl
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 basket	case
14	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 basket	nmod:poss
15	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cock	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
17	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
18	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 asked	iobj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 big	punct
21	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 big	mark
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 bird	det
23	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 big	nsubj
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 big	cop
25	so	so	ADV	_	26 big	advmod
26	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 asked	parataxis
27	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 shut	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lid	det
29	lid	lid	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 shut	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 shut	aux
31	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	32 shut	advmod
32	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 big	advcl
33	down	down	ADP	_	32 shut	compound:prt
34	properly	properly	ADV	_	32 shut	advmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present	wife		with fine red cock in your basket	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past		wife		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is	past	the bird		big property	tree rules
4	not shut down	would	the lid		properly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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