The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 57
Then he asked her, ‘What do you do in my palace?’
Who acts: King, you · What happens: ask, do · To what, where: child, palace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 palace | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 palace | nmod:poss |
| 13 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | King | child | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do | present · do-support | you | my palace | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
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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