The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6, sentence 33
‘“Ah! there is no need to ask how you are,” she said.
Who acts: head, you · What happens: be, ask, say · To what, where: need · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head, 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 | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 2 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 3 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 6 is | discourse |
| 4 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 Ah | punct |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 is | expl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 need | cop |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 need | det |
| 8 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | ccomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 ask | mark |
| 10 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 need | acl |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 are | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 are | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ask | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 need | punct |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | no need | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | head not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | does in a quote | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | head | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
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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