The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 2, sentence 63
‘Oh, what can you do there?’ answered the kitchen-maid.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, answer · To what, where: kitchen maid
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 7 do | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | parataxis |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 do | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 maid | det |
| 13 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 maid | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 kitchen | punct |
| 15 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | you | there | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the kitchen maid | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent maid=Eventuality |
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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