English Fairy Tales, Master of All Masters, sentence 21
And what do you call all this?” asked he, as he pointed to the house.
Who acts: you, water · What happens: call, ask, point · To what, where: this, water, house · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Master of All Masters. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, water), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 call | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 call | obj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 call | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 call | nsubj |
| 5 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 this | det:predet |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 call | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 call | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | iobj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 pointed | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 pointed | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 pointed | nsubj |
| 15 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 pointed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call speech: assert | present · do-support | you | this | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme this=Result | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask in a quote | past | water | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | point in a quote | past | water | the house | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to house=Recipient |
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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