The Red Fairy Book, The Master Thief, sentence 186

‘What is that you have in your flask, old woman?’ asked one of the stable boys.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: flask, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master Thief. 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	_	15 asked	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 have	obj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 have	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 have	mark
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 have	nsubj
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 asked	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 flask	case
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 flask	nmod:poss
9	flask	flask	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 woman	amod
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 flask	appos
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 woman	punct
15	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 asked	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 boys	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 boys	det
19	stable	stable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boys	amod
20	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 one	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you			your flask		have property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past		one of the stable boys					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic

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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