The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 8
But if they do not know me, or do not know me well, they generally ask ‘Are you writing anything now?’
Who acts: ladies, you · What happens: not know, ask, write · To what, where: me, anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 ask | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 know | mark |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 ask | advcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 know | cc |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 know | advmod |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 know | conj |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 know | obj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 know | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 ask | nsubj |
| 17 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 18 ask | advmod |
| 18 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 writing | punct |
| 20 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 writing | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 writing | nsubj |
| 22 | writing | write | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 ask | ccomp |
| 23 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 22 writing | obj |
| 24 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 writing | advmod |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 writing | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 22 writing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | ladies = lady | me | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | not know | infinitive · do-support | ladies = lady not said here | me | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | ladies = lady | generally property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | write | present · progressive | you | anything | now | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Theme |
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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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