The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 18, sentence 87
'How shall we divide them?' asked the lion in a whisper to the hyena.
Who acts: we · What happens: divide, ask · To what, where: ram, lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, 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 (we), 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 divide | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 divide | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 divide | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 divide | nsubj |
| 5 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 divide | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 divide | punct |
| 8 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 divide | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lion | det |
| 11 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 whisper | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 whisper | det |
| 14 | whisper | whisper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lion | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 hyena | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hyena | det |
| 17 | hyena | hyena | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 whisper | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | divide | shall | we | ram | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lion=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 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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