The Red Fairy Book, Bushy Bride, sentence 237
‘Are you afraid of being poisoned?’ asked the old woman.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, poison, ask · To what, where: old woman · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 poisoned | mark |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 poisoned | aux:pass |
| 7 | poisoned | poison | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 afraid | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 woman | amod |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | poison | gerund · passive | you not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent woman=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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