The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 123

‘But tell me, child, how came you here, and how is it you have neither father, nor mother, nor friend?’

Who acts: you, kingdom · What happens: tell, come, be · To what, where: child, me, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, kingdom), 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 tell	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 tell	cc
3	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 tell	iobj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 child	punct
6	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 came	obj
11	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 came	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 have	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 have	cc
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 have	advmod
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 have	cop
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 have	nsubj
18	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tell	parataxis
19	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	20 father	det
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 have	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 mother	punct
22	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	23 mother	cc
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 father	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 friend	punct
25	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	26 friend	cc
26	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tell	obl
27	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct
28	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	child	me		friend obl	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	come	past		you		here		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location you=Theme
3	is	present	kingdom				have property	tree rules

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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