The Yellow Fairy Book, The Steadfast Tin-soldier, sentence 46

‘Have you a passport?’ asked the rat.

Who acts: you, rat · What happens: have, ask · To what, where: passport · 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 (you, rat), 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	_	2 Have	punct
2	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	ccomp
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 Have	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 passport	det
5	passport	passport	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Have	obj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	2 Have	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 rat	det
10	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	a passport					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passport=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	the rat						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent 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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