The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 76
‘Where have you brought me?’ he asked his guide in a low voice.
Who acts: you, man · What happens: have, bring, ask · To what, where: me, guide, low voice · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, man), 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 | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 3 have | advmod |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | nsubj |
| 5 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 brought | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 guide | nmod:poss |
| 12 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 voice | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 voice | det |
| 15 | low | low | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voice | amod |
| 16 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | bring | past | you | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument i=Destination | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | man | man's guide | a low voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent guide=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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