The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 13
‘Well, maiden,’ he snapped out, ‘do you know who I am?
Who acts: frost, you, I · What happens: snap out, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of King Frost (26). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (frost, you, I), 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 | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 4 maiden | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 snapped | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 snapped | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 snapped | nsubj |
| 8 | snapped | snap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 maiden | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 snapped | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 14 know | punct |
| 12 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 know | aux |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 know | nsubj |
| 14 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 maiden | parataxis |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 know | ccomp |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 who | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 who | cop |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 maiden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snap out | past | frost | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location | |||||
| 2 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | I | 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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