The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 175
‘Good!’ replied the mouse; ‘I will do what you ask.’
Who acts: I, you · What happens: reply, do, ask · To what, where: mouse
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 (I, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Good | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | aux |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Good | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 ask | obj |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 ask | nsubj |
| 15 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 do | ccomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the mouse | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mouse=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | present | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=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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