The Violet Fairy Book, Jesper Who Herded the Hares, sentence 155
‘What did YOU do?’ she whispered in return.
Who acts: YOU, queen · What happens: do, whisper · To what, where: return
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Jesper Who Herded the Hares. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (YOU, queen), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | YOU | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 whispered | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whispered | nsubj |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 return | case |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | YOU | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | queen | return | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in return=Location |
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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