The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of a Gazelle, sentence 204

‘Very good, my son; and if he should ask me what is the matter, what am I to say?’

Who acts: son, I · What happens: ask, be, say · To what, where: me, matter · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (son, I), 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 good	punct
2	Very	very	ADV	_	3 good	advmod
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 son	punct
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 son	nmod:poss
6	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 good	vocative
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ask	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 ask	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 ask	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ask	nsubj
11	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 ask	aux
12	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 good	parataxis
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 ask	iobj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 matter	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 matter	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 matter	det
17	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ask	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 say	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 say	obj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 say	aux
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 say	nsubj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 say	mark
23	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 matter	conj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct
25	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 good	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	should	son		me	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient
2	is a	present		the matter		tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present	I	the matter		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=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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