The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 38
“I want to know what you were doing at the fountain so late?” said the Queen presently.
Who acts: Queen, you · What happens: want, know, do, say · To what, where: fountain · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen, 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 | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 want | xcomp |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 doing | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 doing | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 doing | aux |
| 9 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 know | ccomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 fountain | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fountain | det |
| 12 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 doing | obl |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 late | advmod |
| 14 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 doing | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Queen | det |
| 19 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 20 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 19 Queen | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present | the Queen = queen | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the Queen = queen not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | do in a quote | past · progressive | you | the fountain | late property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | say speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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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