The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 9
‘Where got you this silk?’ asked the king.
What happens: get, ask · To what, where: silk, you, king
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 | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 got | advmod |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 got | obj |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 silk | det |
| 6 | silk | silk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | this silk | you | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary silk=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=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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