The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1, sentence 79
The witch asked, ‘Countryman, who are you, and what is your business?’
Who acts: witch, Countryman · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: Countryman, you, business
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, Countryman), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 witch | det |
| 2 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Countryman | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 Countryman | punct |
| 6 | Countryman | Countryman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 you | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 you | nsubj |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 you | cop |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 Countryman | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 business | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 business | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 business | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 business | cop |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 business | nmod:poss |
| 16 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 business | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 business | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the witch | Countryman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | Countryman | you | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | your business | tree rules |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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