The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 14
‘But where is your son?’ asked Jem, with a trembling voice.
Who acts: son · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: son, Jem
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son), 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 | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 where | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 son | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 son | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Jem | Jem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 voice | punct |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 voice | det |
| 14 | trembling | trembling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 voice | compound |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your son | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | your son | Jem | with a trembling voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent jem=Recipient |
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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