The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 17
‘My son, what are you doing?’ asked the horse wonderingly.
Who acts: you, son · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: son, horse
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, son), 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 | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 doing | obj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 doing | aux |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 doing | nsubj |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 son | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 horse | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | wonderingly | wonderingly | ADV | _ | 11 asked | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · progressive | you | My son | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | My son | the horse | wonderingly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent horse=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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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