The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 81
‘Well, have you got any news to tell me?’ asked he.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, tell, ask · To what, where: news, me, suddenness · 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 (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 | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 6 got | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 got | aux |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | parataxis |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 news | det |
| 8 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 got | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 tell | mark |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 news | acl |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 got | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present · perfect | you | any news | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer news=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | you not said here | any news not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | suddenness | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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 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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