The Green Fairy Book, The Little Soldier, sentence 279

‘What will they add?’ she smilingly asked.

Who acts: crowns, compliment · What happens: add, ask

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 (crowns, compliment), 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 add	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 add	obl
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 add	aux
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 add	nsubj
5	add	add	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
9	smilingly	smilingly	ADV	_	10 asked	advmod
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 add	advcl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 add	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	add speech: assert	future	crowns = crown						vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	compliment					smilingly property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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