The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 62
‘Can the Snow-queen come in here?’ asked the little girl.
Who acts: Snow queen · What happens: come in, ask · To what, where: little girl · 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 (Snow queen), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 4 | Snow | Snow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 queen | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Snow | punct |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 come | advmod |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 come | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 come | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | can | the Snow queen | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the little girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent girl=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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