The Red Fairy Book, Farmer Weatherbeard, sentence 81
In a short time it asked again, ‘Do you see anything now?’
Who acts: flock, you · What happens: ask, see · To what, where: anything · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Farmer Weatherbeard. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (flock, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 asked | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 12 see | obj |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 see | advmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | flock | again; time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | present · do-support | you | anything | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus |
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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