The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 13, sentence 69
There a farmer found them and asked what was the matter. '
Who acts: farmer · What happens: find, ask, be · To what, where: plans, matter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (farmer), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 found | expl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 farmer | det |
| 3 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 asked | cc |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 11 matter | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 matter | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 matter | det |
| 11 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
| 13 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a farmer | plans = plan | there | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | a farmer not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules |
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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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