The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 19, sentence 48
'Why, what is the matter?' asked the greyhound, looking up with astonishment.
What happens: be, ask, look up · To what, where: matter, greyhound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 asked | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 9 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 greyhound | det |
| 12 | greyhound | greyhound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 looking | punct |
| 14 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 asked | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 looking | compound:prt |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 astonishment | case |
| 17 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looking | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the greyhound | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent greyhound=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | look up | gerund | with astonishment | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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