The Yellow Fairy Book, The Story of King Frost (26), sentence 17
‘Are you warm, maiden?’ he replied.
Who acts: you, hail · What happens: be, reply · 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 (you, hail), 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 warm | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 warm | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 warm | nsubj |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 maiden | punct |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 warm | conj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 warm | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | warm property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | hail | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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