The Yellow Fairy Book, A Story About a Darning-needle, sentence 22
‘May I be allowed to ask if you are gold?’ she said to her neighbour, the Pin.
Who acts: I, you, needle · What happens: allow, ask, be, say · To what, where: I, gold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Story About a Darning-needle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you, needle), 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 allowed | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 allowed | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | aux:pass |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 ask | mark |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allowed | xcomp |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 gold | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 gold | nsubj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 gold | cop |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | ccomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 allowed | punct |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 neighbour | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 18 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Pin | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Pin | det |
| 21 | Pin | Pin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 neighbour | appos |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow | may · passive | I | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | you | gold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | needle | to needle's neighbour | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to neighbour=Experiencer 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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