The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 7

‘That is my affair, beautiful captive,’ answered he; ‘only tell me, which way will the serpent come?’

Who acts: That, affair · What happens: be, answer, tell, come · To what, where: affair, monster, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That, affair), 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 affair	punct
2	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 affair	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 affair	cop
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 affair	nmod:poss
5	affair	affair	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 answered	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 captive	punct
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 captive	amod
8	captive	captive	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 affair	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 affair	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 affair	punct
11	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 answered	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 tell	advmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 answered	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 come	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 come	nsubj
20	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	nsubj
21	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 serpent	det
23	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	nsubj
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 tell	conj
25	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
26	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	That	my affair and beautiful captive		tree rules
2	answer speech: assert	past	my affair and beautiful captive		monster	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive			me	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
4	come	future				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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