The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 35

‘Yes, what shall it be?’ asked another.

Who acts: present · What happens: be, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (present), 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 be	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	7 be	discourse
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Yes	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 be	obj
5	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 be	aux
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 be	nsubj
7	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	ccomp
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 be	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 be	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	10 asked	flat:foreign
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	shall	present						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past							vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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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