The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Hassebu, sentence 6

One day the boy said to his mother: ‘What was my father’s business?’

Who acts: boy · What happens: say, be · To what, where: mother, business · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Hassebu. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl:unmarked
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 mother	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mother	nmod:poss
8	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obl
9	:	:	PUNCT	_	10 ‘	punct
10	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 business	punct
11	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 business	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 business	cop
13	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 father	nmod:poss
14	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 business	nmod:poss
15	’s	's	PART	_	14 father	case
16	business	business	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 business	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 business	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the boy		child's mother		day		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mother=Recipient
2	is a	past		my father's business					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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