The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 32
And the dove replied, trembling with fear, ‘What do you want, sir?’
Who acts: dove, you · What happens: reply, tremble, want, sir
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dove, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 replied | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dove | det |
| 3 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 trembling | punct |
| 6 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 replied | advcl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 fear | case |
| 8 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 trembling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 want | punct |
| 11 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 want | obj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 want | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 want | nsubj |
| 14 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 trembling | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sir | punct |
| 16 | sir | sir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 want | xcomp |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | participle | the dove | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | the dove not said here | with fear | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | present · do-support | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sir not said to happen | infinitive | you not said here | 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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