The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 42
“What kind of animal is that which can work magic of this sort?” asked he.
Who acts: kind · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: magic · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (kind), 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 | _ | 10 work | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 kind | det |
| 3 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 animal | case |
| 5 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kind | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 work | mark |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 work | nsubj |
| 9 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 work | aux |
| 10 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | magic | magic | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 work | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sort | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 sort | det |
| 14 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 work | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 work | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 work | punct |
| 17 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 asked | iobj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | can · present | what kind of animal | of this sort; work property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | magic | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient 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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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