The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 20
‘Are you Hannah the herb seller?’ she asked in a croaky voice as her head shook to and fro.
Who acts: you, Hannah, head · What happens: be, ask, shake, fro · To what, where: Hannah, croaky voice
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Hannah, head), 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 | _ | 4 Hannah | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Hannah | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 Hannah | nsubj |
| 4 | Hannah | Hannah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 seller | det |
| 6 | herb | herb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seller | compound |
| 7 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Hannah | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hannah | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 Hannah | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | croaky | croaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 voice | amod |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obl |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 shook | mark |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 head | nmod:poss |
| 18 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 shook | nsubj |
| 19 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 asked | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 shook | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fro | cc |
| 22 | fro | fro | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 shook | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | Hannah | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Hannah | a croaky voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | shake | past | woman's head | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | fro | infinitive | woman's head not said here | 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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