The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 115
One day when the latter asked her mirror the usual question, it replied:
Who acts: question · What happens: ask, reply · To what, where: mirror
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Bushy Bride. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 asked | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 latter | det |
| 5 | latter | latte | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 asked | advmod |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 replied | advcl |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 mirror | nmod:poss |
| 8 | mirror | mirror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 question | det |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 question | amod |
| 11 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | question not said here | SNOWDROP's mirror | day | latte property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | question | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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