Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 32

"What robe will you wear?" asked the henwife.

Who acts: robe, henwife · What happens: wear, ask · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Fair, Brown, and Trembling. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robe, henwife), 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	_	6 wear	punct
2	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	3 robe	det
3	robe	robe	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wear	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 wear	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 wear	nsubj
6	wear	wear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 wear	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 wear	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 henwife	det
11	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 asked	obj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear in a quote	future	what robe						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past	the henwife						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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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