The Violet Fairy Book, The Envious Neighbour, sentence 14
‘How can you ask such a thing?’ answered the old man indignantly.
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, answer · To what, where: thing, old man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Envious Neighbour. 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 | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 ask | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 6 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 thing | det:predet |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 thing | det |
| 8 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 15 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | can | you | such thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the old man | indignantly property | tree rules |
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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