English Fairy Tales, Jack Hannaford, sentence 16
“And how was he a-doing?” asked the goody.
Who acts: man, goody · What happens: do, ask · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack Hannaford. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, goody), 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 | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 doing | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 doing | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 doing | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 doing | nsubj |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 doing | det |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 a | punct |
| 8 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 doing | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 goody | det |
| 13 | goody | goody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past · progressive | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the goody | 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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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