The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 36

'And where is this castle?' inquired the country swallow, who, like all the rest, and the children most of all, had been listening with deep attention.

Who acts: castle · What happens: be, inquire, listen · To what, where: castle, country swallow

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle), 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	_	6 castle	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 castle	cc
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	6 castle	advmod
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 castle	cop
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 castle	det
6	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inquired	nsubj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 castle	punct
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 castle	punct
9	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 swallow	det
11	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swallow	compound
12	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 inquired	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rest	punct
14	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 rest	nsubj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 rest	punct
16	like	like	ADP	_	19 rest	case
17	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	19 rest	det:predet
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 rest	det
19	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 swallow	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 children	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 children	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 children	det
23	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 rest	conj
24	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	23 children	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 all	case
26	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 most	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 listening	punct
28	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 listening	aux
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 listening	aux
30	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 inquired	advcl
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 attention	case
32	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 attention	amod
33	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 listening	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		this castle		tree rules
2	inquire speech: other	past	this castle	the country swallow	like all rest and the children most of all	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swallow=Recipient
3	listen	past · perfect · progressive	this castle not said here		with deep attention	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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.

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