The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 113
Now the poor old woman was mortally afraid and, in a trembling voice she asked:
Who acts: poor old woman, woman · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: trembling voice
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Magic Ring. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor old woman, woman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woman | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 afraid | cop |
| 7 | mortally | mortally | ADV | _ | 8 afraid | advmod |
| 8 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 voice | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 and | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 voice | compound |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 afraid | conj |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 voice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the poor old woman | now | afraid, mortally property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | woman | a trembling voice not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent voice=Recipient |
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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