The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 3, sentence 45
‘Who is there?’ asks the porter, putting his head out of the wicket.
What happens: be, ask, put · To what, where: porter, head, wicket · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 is | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 is | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 asks | ccomp |
| 4 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 7 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 porter | det |
| 9 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asks | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 putting | punct |
| 11 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asks | advcl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 putting | obj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 wicket | case |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 wicket | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 wicket | det |
| 17 | wicket | wicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 putting | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | the porter | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent porter=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | put | gerund | Drakestail's head | the wicket | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out wicket=Destination |
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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