The Yellow Fairy Book, The Magic Ring, sentence 186

‘Martin, dear master, are you still alive?’

Who acts: Martin · What happens: be

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 (Martin), 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 Martin	punct
2	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 alive	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 master	punct
4	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 master	amod
5	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Martin	appos
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Martin	punct
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 alive	cop
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 alive	nsubj
9	still	still	ADV	_	10 alive	advmod
10	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 alive	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 alive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Martin				still	alive property	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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