The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 51
‘What will you take for the pot?’ asked the lady-in-waiting.
Who acts: you · What happens: take, ask · To what, where: waiting · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 take | obj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 take | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 take | nsubj |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 pot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pot | det |
| 8 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 take | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 waiting | det |
| 13 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 waiting | nsubj |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 waiting | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 waiting | case |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 in | punct |
| 17 | waiting | waiting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | you | for the pot | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent what=Theme for pot=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the waiting | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent waiting=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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