The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 22

‘How much do I owe you?’ asked the woman when the shoes were finished.

Who acts: I · What happens: owe, ask, finish · To what, where: you, woman, 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), 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	10 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	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woman	det
12	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	obj
13	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	17 finished	advmod
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 shoes	det
15	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 finished	nsubj:pass
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 finished	aux:pass
17	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 asked	advcl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	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			the woman	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic
3	finish	past · passive		the shoes		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: 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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