The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 2, sentence 23

‘Is it really you who have been clever enough to do that?’ he asked.

Who acts: place, you, horse · What happens: be, do, ask · To what, where: you, that

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 (place, you, horse), 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 you	punct
2	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 you	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 you	nsubj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 you	advmod
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 clever	nsubj
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 clever	nsubj
7	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 clever	cop
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 clever	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 do	mark
12	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 clever	xcomp
13	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 do	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 clever	punct
15	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 clever	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	nsubj
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 clever	parataxis
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 clever	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	place	you		tree rules
2	is	present · perfect	you		clever, enough property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	that		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality
4	ask speech: ask	past	horse			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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