The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 159
‘Pray tell me what you are looking for here?’
Who acts: Pray, you · What happens: tell, look · To what, where: me · 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 (Pray, you), 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 | Pray | Pray | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 looking | obl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 looking | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 looking | aux |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 tell | obl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 here | case |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 looking | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | Pray | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | look | present · progressive | you | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for here=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 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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