The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 47
‘But where are my two sisters?’ asked the maid.
Who acts: two sisters · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: two sisters, maid
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sisters), 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 | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sisters | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 sisters | advmod |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sisters | cop |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sisters | nmod:poss |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 sisters | nummod |
| 7 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 sisters | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 sisters | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maid | det |
| 12 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | my two sisters | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | my two sisters | the maid | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maid=Recipient |
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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