The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 45
She asked him, ‘Why have you come here?’
Who acts: dragon, you · What happens: ask, come · To what, where: Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dragon, 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 5 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 6 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 come | advmod |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 come | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 come | nsubj |
| 9 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 come | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | dragon | Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come | present | you | here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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