The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 53
‘Well, how do you like to be a fish?’ asked the troll.
Who acts: you · What happens: like, be, ask · To what, where: fish, troll · 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 (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 | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 like | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 like | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 like | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 like | nsubj |
| 7 | like | like | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fish | mark |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 fish | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 fish | det |
| 11 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 like | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 like | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 troll | det |
| 16 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | is a not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a fish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the troll | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent troll=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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