The Green Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 2, sentence 41
‘Who are you, in the name of wonder?’ demanded the astonished Prince.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, demand, name · To what, where: you, astonished Prince, wonder
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Biter Bit, part 2. 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 | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 you | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 you | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 demanded | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 name | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 name | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 name | det |
| 8 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 you | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 wonder | case |
| 10 | wonder | wonder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 name | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 you | punct |
| 13 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Prince | det |
| 15 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Prince | amod |
| 16 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 demanded | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | demand speech: request | past | you | the astonished Prince | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme prince=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | name | wonder | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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