The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Three Wonderful Beggars, sentence 95
The old ferryman asked: ‘Are you going far, my friend?’
Who acts: old ferryman, you · What happens: ask, go · 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 (old ferryman, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 ferryman | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ferryman | amod |
| 3 | ferryman | ferryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 7 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 going | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 going | nsubj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 going | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 friend | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friend | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | conj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the old ferryman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | go | present · progressive | you | far property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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