The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 83

‘Ask him,’ answered the hermit.

What happens: ask, answer · To what, where: youth, hermit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	_	2 Ask	punct
2	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 answered	ccomp
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 Ask	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Ask	punct
6	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hermit	det
8	hermit	hermit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 answered	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	infinitive			youth				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	answer speech: assert	past		the hermit					tree rules

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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