The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 26

As soon as he had said ‘Good-day’ he asked, ‘Has Peter come home here?’

Who acts: man, Peter · What happens: say, ask, have, come · To what, where: Peter · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Peter), 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 said	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 said	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	aux
6	said	say	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	‘	'	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
8	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 day	amod
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Good	punct
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obl:unmarked
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 day	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 Has	punct
15	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 Has	punct
16	Has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	ccomp
17	Peter	Peter	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Has	obj
18	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 Has	xcomp
19	home	home	ADV	_	18 come	advmod
20	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	18 come	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct
22	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · perfect	man				soon property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	past	man			day		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	have	present		Peter				tree rules
4	come	infinitive	Peter not said here		here		home property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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