The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 15
‘What shall I do down there?’ asked the Soldier.
What happens: ask · To what, where: Soldier
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tinder-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 there | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 there | aux |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 What | acl:relcl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 there | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 there | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Soldier | det |
| 12 | Soldier | Soldier | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Soldier | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent soldier=Recipient |
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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