The Red Fairy Book, The Nettle Spinner, sentence 31
‘What are you spinning?’ he asked in a rough voice.
Who acts: you, Burchard · What happens: spin, ask · To what, where: rough voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Burchard), 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 | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 spinning | obj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 spinning | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 spinning | nsubj |
| 5 | spinning | spin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 spinning | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 voice | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spin | present · progressive | you | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Burchard | a rough voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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