The Violet Fairy Book, Stan Bolovan, sentence 68
‘Can you get buttermilk out of your stone?’ asked Stan.
Who acts: you · What happens: get, ask · To what, where: buttermilk, stone, Stan · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Stan Bolovan. 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | buttermilk | buttermilk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stone | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | Stan | Stan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | you | buttermilk | your stone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer buttermilk=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Stan | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent stan=Recipient 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 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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