The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 37
“Have you cleaned the stable?” asked the giant.
Who acts: you · What happens: clean, ask · To what, where: stable, giant · 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), 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 cleaned | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleaned | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cleaned | nsubj |
| 4 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stable | det |
| 6 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleaned | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleaned | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleaned | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 cleaned | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 giant | det |
| 11 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 cleaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | clean in a quote | present | you | the stable | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent stable=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | you not said here | the giant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient |
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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