Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12, sentence 54
Who are you?" asked the king, entering the room.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, ask, enter · To what, where: king, room
This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 12. 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Who | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Who | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Who | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 king | det |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 entering | punct |
| 10 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 room | det |
| 12 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entering | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | enter in a quote | gerund | the room | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination |
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: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (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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