The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 119
‘Are you cold now?’ she asked, and kissed his forehead.
Who acts: you, cold · What happens: be, ask, kiss · To what, where: forehead · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, cold), 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 | _ | 4 cold | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cold | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 cold | nsubj |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 cold | advmod |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cold | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 kissed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kissed | cc |
| 12 | kissed | kiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 forehead | nmod:poss |
| 14 | forehead | forehead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kissed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | now | cold property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | cold | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | kiss | past | masterpiece's forehead | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forehead=Co-Agent |
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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