The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 44

‘Then you are an orphan?’ asked the stranger.

Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: stranger

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	6 orphan	punct
2	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 orphan	advmod
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 orphan	nsubj
4	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 orphan	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 orphan	det
6	orphan	orphan	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asked	parataxis
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 orphan	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 orphan	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 stranger	det
11	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	iobj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you				then	orphan property	tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past			the stranger				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent stranger=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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