The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 26
‘Can I do anything for you, my friend?’ asked the monkey politely.
Who acts: I · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: anything, monkey · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 10 friend | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 do | advcl |
| 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 monkey | det |
| 15 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | obj |
| 16 | politely | politely | ADV | _ | 13 asked | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | anything | for you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the monkey | politely property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent monkey=Recipient 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 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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