The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 168
‘Why did you come to our house?’ continued the Dwarfs.
Who acts: you · What happens: come, continue · To what, where: house, Dwarfs
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 (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 | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 come | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 continued | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 11 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dwarfs | det |
| 13 | Dwarfs | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 continued | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · do-support | you | our house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the Dwarfs | tree rules |
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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