The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 22, sentence 44
'What can it be?' she asked, turning to her guide; who answered:
Who acts: sun, queen · What happens: be, ask, turn, answer · To what, where: guide · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sun, queen), 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 be | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 be | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 be | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 be | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 answered | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 turning | punct |
| 11 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 guide | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 guide | nmod:poss |
| 14 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turning | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 answered | nsubj |
| 17 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | can | can | sun | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | turn | gerund | queen not said here | queen's guide | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to guide=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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/pg3027/22/44/