More English Fairy Tales, More English Fairy Tales, part 17, sentence 46
The laird was astonished at the weird-looking company, as he well might be, and inquired of one after another the cause of their strange lips.
Who acts: laird · What happens: be, look, inquire, cause · To what, where: looking company, strange lips
This is a sentence of «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, More English Fairy Tales, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (laird), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 laird | det |
| 2 | laird | laird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | cop |
| 4 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 company | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 company | det |
| 7 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 weird | punct |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 company | amod |
| 10 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 astonished | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 be | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 be | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 be | nsubj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 be | advmod |
| 15 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 be | aux |
| 16 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 astonished | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquired | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inquired | cc |
| 19 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 astonished | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 inquired | obl |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 25 cause | case |
| 23 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 cause | det |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 cause | det |
| 25 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inquired | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 lips | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lips | nmod:poss |
| 28 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 lips | amod |
| 29 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cause | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 astonished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the laird | the looking company | astonished property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | be | might | laird | well property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | after another cause of roots's strange lips | of one | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of one=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | cause | roots's strange lips | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient |
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: «More English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 14241 (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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