The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 109
‘You can really trust the dog to call your husband?’ asked the robbers.
Who acts: You · What happens: trust, call, ask · To what, where: dog, husband, robbers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17. 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 trust | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 trust | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 trust | aux |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 trust | advmod |
| 5 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dog | det |
| 7 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trust | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 call | mark |
| 9 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trust | xcomp |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 call | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 trust | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 trust | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 robbers | det |
| 16 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | can | You | the dog | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call | to-infinitive | You not said here | your husband | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent husband=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the robbers | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent robber=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 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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