The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 38
He will then ask you whether you can recognise her, and to this you will answer “Yes.”
Who acts: father, you · What happens: ask, recognise, answer · To what, where: you, girl
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, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 ask | aux |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 ask | advmod |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | iobj |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 9 recognise | mark |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 recognise | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 recognise | aux |
| 9 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | xcomp |
| 10 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 recognise | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 answer | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 answer | cc |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 this | case |
| 14 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 answer | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 answer | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 answer | aux |
| 17 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ask | conj |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 Yes | punct |
| 19 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 17 answer | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | father | you | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | recognise not said to happen | can | you | girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | future | you | to this | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent yes=Eventuality |
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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