The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 59
‘Is it too heavy for you, little brother?’ asked one of the beds.
Who acts: language · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: one · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (language), 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 heavy | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 heavy | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 heavy | nsubj |
| 4 | too | too | ADV | _ | 5 heavy | advmod |
| 5 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 heavy | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 brother | punct |
| 9 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 heavy | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 heavy | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 asked | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 beds | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 beds | det |
| 17 | beds | bed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | language | for you; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | one of the beds | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=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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