The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 75
‘But what are we to do with you?’ asked the fisherman.
Who acts: we · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: fisherman · 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 (we), 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 | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 4 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | cop |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 do | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Sub Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 you | case |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fisherman | det |
| 14 | fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is not said to happen | present | we | with you; do property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the fisherman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent fisherman=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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