The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4, sentence 51
‘Don’t you feel thirsty, Costan?’ asked Florea, winking at him.
Who acts: you · What happens: not do, feel, ask, wink · To what, where: Costan, Florea · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 4. 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 | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Do | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 feel | nsubj |
| 5 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Do | ccomp |
| 6 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 feel | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Costan | punct |
| 8 | Costan | Costan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Do | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Do | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Florea | Florea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 winking | punct |
| 14 | winking | wink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 winking | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | Costan | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feel | present | you | thirsty property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Florea | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent florea=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | wink | gerund | at Costan | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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