The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 59
‘How did you get the ring which was in the soup?’ he asked.
Who acts: you, ring, King · What happens: get, be, ask · To what, where: ring, soup · 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 (you, ring, King), 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 get | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 get | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 get | nsubj |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ring | det |
| 7 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 get | obj |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 soup | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 soup | cop |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 soup | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 soup | det |
| 12 | soup | soup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ring | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 get | punct |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | you | the ring | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the ring | the soup | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | King | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg7277/42/59/