The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 53
‘Well, Benjamin, what’s the news?’ they asked.
Who acts: Benjamin · What happens: ask
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Benjamin), 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 Benjamin | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 Benjamin | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | Benjamin | Benjamin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Benjamin | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 ’s | nsubj |
| 7 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Benjamin | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 news | det |
| 9 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ’s | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Benjamin | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Benjamin | punct |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Benjamin | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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