The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 44
‘And you?’ asked the old man of the girl, who stood by her brother.
Who acts: old man, girl · What happens: ask, stand
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old man, girl), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg3454:1772): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 you | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 you | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 man | amod |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 girl | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 girl | det |
| 12 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stood | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 stood | nsubj |
| 15 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 girl | acl:relcl |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 brother | case |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brother | nmod:poss |
| 18 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 stood | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | of the girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of girl=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the girl | by Girl's brother | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by brother=Location |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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