The Violet Fairy Book, The Frog, sentence 53
‘What should I do with you as a wife,’ he replied, wondering at her strange proposal.
Who acts: I, youth, mother · What happens: do, reply, wonder, propose · To what, where: strange proposal · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Frog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, youth, mother), 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 do | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 replied | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 do | obl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 wife | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 wife | det |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 wife | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 replied | nsubj |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 wondering | punct |
| 16 | wondering | wonder | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 replied | advcl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 proposal | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 19 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 proposal | amod |
| 20 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wondering | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | should | I | with you; as a wife | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | youth | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | youth not said here | mother's strange proposal | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | propose | mother | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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