The Violet Fairy Book, The Underground Workers, sentence 13
‘What is your name?’ asked the stranger, suddenly turning round.
Who acts: name · What happens: be, ask, turn round · To what, where: name, stranger
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Underground Workers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), 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 name | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 stranger | det |
| 10 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turning | punct |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 13 turning | advmod |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 turning | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | your name | the stranger | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | turn round | gerund | your name not said here | round, suddenly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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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