The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 138
‘What won’t you do?’ asked the swineherd.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, ask · To what, where: swineherd
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 | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | wo | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 do | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swineherd | det |
| 11 | swineherd | swineherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | future | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the swineherd | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swineherd=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 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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