Celtic Fairy Tales, Fair, Brown, and Trembling, sentence 56

What dress would you like?" asked the henwife.

Who acts: dress · What happens: like, ask · To what, where: henwife

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 (dress), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 dress	det
2	dress	dress	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 like	aux
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 like	nsubj
5	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 like	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 henwife	det
10	henwife	henwife	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	would	what dress						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	ask speech: ask in a quote	past	what dress not said here	the henwife					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent henwife=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: «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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