The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 36
The first question my father will ask will be, “Where is my daughter?”
Who acts: father, first question · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: first question, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, first question), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 question | det |
| 2 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 daughter | nsubj |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 question | acl:relcl |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 daughter | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 daughter | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Where | punct |
| 12 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 daughter | advmod |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 daughter | cop |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 15 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 daughter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | my father | the first question not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | future | the first question | my daughter | 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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