The Green Fairy Book, The Blue Bird, part 2, sentence 102
‘If one may ask, Madam, where did you get all these diamonds?
Who acts: one, you · What happens: ask, get · To what, where: Madam, diamonds
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Bird, 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 (one, 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 ask | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 ask | mark |
| 3 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Madam | punct |
| 7 | Madam | Madam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 get | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 ask | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 diamonds | det:predet |
| 14 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 15 diamonds | det |
| 15 | diamonds | diamond | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 get | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | may | one | Madam | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent madam=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | get | past · do-support | you | all diamonds | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer diamond=Stimulus |
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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