The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 108
‘Who were those two?’ asked the Snow-man of the yard-dog.
Who acts: those · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: those, Snow man
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (those), 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 | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 those | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 those | cop |
| 4 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 those | appos |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 two | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 those | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 man | det |
| 10 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 Snow | punct |
| 12 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 dog | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dog | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dog | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 yard | punct |
| 17 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 man | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | those | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | those | the Snow man of the yard dog | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=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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