The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 41
‘Where can I be coming now?’ he wondered.
Who acts: I, boy · What happens: come, wonder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Steadfast Tin-soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, boy), 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 | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 coming | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 coming | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 coming | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 coming | aux |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 wondered | ccomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 coming | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 coming | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wondered | nsubj |
| 11 | wondered | wonder | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 wondered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | can · progressive | I | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | past | boy | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
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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