The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 90
He stopped the Prince and asked him in a harsh voice: ‘Are you the man who has just fed my body-guard?’
Who acts: Prince · What happens: stop, ask, feed · To what, where: Prince, harsh voice, you
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (Prince), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stopped | nsubj |
| 2 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Prince | det |
| 4 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 stopped | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stopped | conj |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 voice | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 10 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 voice | amod |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obl |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 fed | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 21 fed | punct |
| 14 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fed | aux:pass |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 fed | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 fed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 fed | aux |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 fed | advmod |
| 21 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stopped | parataxis |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 guard | nmod:poss |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 guard | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 body | punct |
| 25 | guard | guard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fed | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 fed | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | Prince | the Prince | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector prince=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Prince not said here | Prince | a harsh voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | feed | present · perfect · passive | you | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient guard=Theme |
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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