The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 148
‘Why did you leave her?’ asked the Snow-man.
Who acts: you · What happens: leave, ask · To what, where: flicker, Snow man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 leave | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 leave | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | nsubj |
| 5 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 leave | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 leave | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 11 | Snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 Snow | punct |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past · do-support | you | flicker | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Snow man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent man=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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