The Blue Fairy Book, Felicia and the Pot of Pinks, sentence 95
“But supposing he was not your brother, after all, what would you say then?” asked the Queen.
Who acts: brother, Queen · What happens: suppose, not be, say, ask · To what, where: brother, Queen · 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 (brother, Queen), 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 supposing | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 supposing | cc |
| 3 | supposing | suppose | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brother | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 brother | advmod |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 supposing | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 all | punct |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 11 all | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 supposing | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 say | punct |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 say | obj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 say | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 say | nsubj |
| 16 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 all | conj |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 say | advmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 supposing | punct |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Queen | det |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | iobj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suppose in a quote | gerund | after all | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is a in a quote | past | brother | your brother | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert in a quote | would | the Queen = queen | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | the Queen | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient 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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