The Blue Fairy Book, The White Cat, part 3, sentence 17
“Are the ladies beautiful?” he asked anxiously.
Who acts: ladies, prince · What happens: be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Cat, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ladies, prince), 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 | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ladies | det |
| 4 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 beautiful | nsubj |
| 5 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beautiful | parataxis |
| 10 | anxiously | anxiously | ADV | _ | 9 asked | advmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 beautiful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | the ladies | beautiful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | prince | anxiously property | 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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