The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 15
‘How much do I owe you?’ she asked when they were done.
Who acts: I, pair · What happens: owe, ask, do · To what, where: you, shoes · 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 (I, pair), 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 | _ | 6 owe | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 do | obj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 owe | aux |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 owe | nsubj |
| 6 | owe | owe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 owe | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 owe | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 owe | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 done | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 done | nsubj |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 done | aux:pass |
| 15 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present · do-support | I | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | pair | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | do | past · passive | shoes = shoe | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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