The Yellow Fairy Book, The White Duck, sentence 52
But the witch answered, ‘My dear husband, what do you mean?
Who acts: witch, you · What happens: answer, mean · To what, where: dear husband
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The White Duck. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (witch, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 witch | det |
| 3 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 husband | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 husband | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 husband | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 husband | amod |
| 9 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mean | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 mean | obj |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 mean | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 mean | nsubj |
| 14 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 husband | parataxis |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | the witch | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | mean | present · do-support | you | My dear husband | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 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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