The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 14, sentence 30
'Well, but what is it?' persisted he.
Who acts: head · What happens: be, persist · To what, where: head, son
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (head), 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 | _ | 5 what | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 what | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 what | cc |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 it | cop |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 persisted | nsubj:outer |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 it | punct |
| 10 | persisted | persist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 persisted | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 what | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | head | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | persist | past | head | son | 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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