The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 167
‘What is your name?’ said the King, ‘and who are you?’
Who acts: name, you · What happens: be, say · To what, where: name · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Soldier. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name, 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 | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 name | nmod:poss |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 King | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 14 who | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 who | cc |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 who | cop |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 who | nsubj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your name | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | your name | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | you | tree rules |
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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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