The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 115
You might at least ask him about it.’
Who acts: You · What happens: ask · To what, where: Peter, least
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 13. 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 least | case |
| 4 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 ask | obl |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | obj |
| 7 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | might | You | Peter | least | about Paternoster | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient about it=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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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