The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 192

‘Who is Schippeitaro?’ he suddenly asked; ‘can any of you tell me?’

Who acts: Schippeitaro, any · What happens: be, ask, tell · To what, where: Schippeitaro, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Schippeitaro, any), 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	_	4 Schippeitaro	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 Schippeitaro	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 Schippeitaro	cop
4	Schippeitaro	Schippeitaro	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	nsubj
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 Schippeitaro	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 Schippeitaro	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
8	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	9 asked	advmod
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 tell	aux
13	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	16 tell	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 you	case
15	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 any	nmod
16	tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	ccomp
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	16 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Schippeitaro			tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	Schippeitaro			suddenly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	tell speech: assert	can	any		me		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=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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