The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2, sentence 94
“Do you know what you are asking?” said the Fairy of the Desert, frowning, and looking at him suspiciously.
Who acts: you, Fairy · What happens: know, ask, say, frown, look · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Fairy), 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 know | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 asking | obj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 asking | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asking | aux |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 know | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Fairy | det |
| 13 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Desert | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Desert | det |
| 16 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Fairy | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 frowning | punct |
| 18 | frowning | frown | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looking | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looking | cc |
| 21 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 frowning | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 looking | obl |
| 24 | suspiciously | suspiciously | ADV | _ | 21 looking | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present · progressive | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | the Fairy of the Desert | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | frown | gerund | the Fairy of the Desert not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | look | gerund | the Fairy of the Desert not said here | at Desert; suspiciously property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at he=Theme |
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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