The Yellow Fairy Book, The Tinder-box, sentence 56
‘Have you got the tinder-box also?’ asked the Witch.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, ask · To what, where: tinder box, Witch
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: 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 | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 2 | Have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 box | det |
| 6 | tinder | tinder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 box | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 tinder | punct |
| 8 | box | box | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 9 | also | also | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Witch | det |
| 14 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | present | you | the tinder box | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer box=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Witch | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent witch=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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