Gleanings from Chinese folklore, A Chinese Tea-house Story, sentence 52
“What is your purpose?” questioned the now anxious wife.
Who acts: purpose · What happens: be, question · To what, where: purpose, anxious wife · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, A Chinese Tea-house Story. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (purpose), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 purpose | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 purpose | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 purpose | cop |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 questioned | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 purpose | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 purpose | punct |
| 8 | questioned | question | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wife | det |
| 10 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 anxious | advmod |
| 11 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 wife | amod |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 questioned | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 questioned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | your purpose | What nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | question speech: other | past | your purpose | the anxious wife | vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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