The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 20
‘Why didn’t you come?’ he asked the pretty spinner.
Who acts: you, Count · What happens: not come, ask · To what, where: pretty spinner
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nettle Spinner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Count), 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 | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 n’t | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 n’t | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 come | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | obl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 spinner | det |
| 12 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 spinner | amod |
| 13 | spinner | spinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Count | the pretty spinner | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent spinner=Recipient |
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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