The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 17, sentence 35
'The golden cloak! what is that?' asked the king.
Who acts: golden cloak · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: that, king
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (golden cloak), 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 | _ | 4 cloak | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 cloak | det |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 cloak | amod |
| 4 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 what | punct |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 cloak | parataxis |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 that | cop |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 what | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloak | punct |
| 10 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cloak | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 king | det |
| 13 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the golden cloak | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=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: «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3027/17/35/