The Violet Fairy Book, The Child Who Came From an Egg, sentence 17
‘But who are you?’ asked the queen, ‘for you seem to be able to read my heart.’
Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask, seem, read · To what, where: queen, heart
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Child Who Came From an Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 who | cop |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 who | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 who | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 who | 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 queen | det |
| 10 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 seem | punct |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 seem | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 seem | nsubj |
| 15 | seem | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 able | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 seem | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 read | mark |
| 20 | read | read | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 heart | nmod:poss |
| 22 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 read | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | seem | present | you | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | read | to-infinitive | you not said here | my heart | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=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 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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