The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 28
“Yes, but how will you be able to do that?” she asked again.
Who acts: you, youngest · What happens: be, do, ask · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, 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, youngest), 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 | _ | 9 able | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 able | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 able | cc |
| 5 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 able | advmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 able | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 able | nsubj |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | cop |
| 9 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 able | xcomp |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 able | punct |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 asked | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | future | you | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | youngest = young | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: 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 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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