The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 1, sentence 75

‘What will you be called?’ asked the elder.

What happens: call, ask · To what, where: you, elder · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 1. 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	_	6 called	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 called	obj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 called	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 called	nsubj:pass
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 called	aux:pass
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 asked	acl
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 called	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 elder	det
11	elder	elder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	future · passive		you					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Result
2	ask speech: ask	past		the elder					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elder=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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