The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 12
‘What will you do with the box when it is made?’ inquired the beggar.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, make, inquire · To what, where: box, beggar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 2. 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 | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 box | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 9 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux:pass |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 do | advcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 15 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beggar | det |
| 17 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inquired | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | future | you | with the box | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | make | present · passive | box | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | the beggar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent beggar=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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