The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 138
“How have you got on this time?” he asked.
Who acts: you, King · What happens: get, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, King), 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 | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 got | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in a quote | present · perfect | you | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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