The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 119
‘What is the news where you come from, my grandson,’ asked she.
Who acts: you, news · What happens: be, come, ask · To what, where: news, life
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of a Gazelle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, news), 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 news | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 news | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 news | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 news | det |
| 5 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 come | advmod |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 come | nsubj |
| 8 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 news | acl:relcl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 come | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 grandson | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 12 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 news | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 news | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the news and my grandson | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the news and my grandson | life | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=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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