The Blue Fairy Book, The Brave Little Tailor, sentence 105
“Weren’t you wounded?” asked the horsemen.
Who acts: you, horsemen · What happens: not wound, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brave Little Tailor. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, horsemen), 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 wounded | punct |
| 2 | Were | were | INTJ | _ | 3 n’t | discourse |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wounded | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 wounded | nsubj |
| 5 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 wounded | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wounded | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 horsemen | det |
| 10 | horsemen | horseman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wound in a quote | past | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the horsemen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how 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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