The Brown Fairy Book, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 101
“How can a sand hole remain full of water?” asked he.
Who acts: sand hole · What happens: remain, ask · To what, where: hole · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Brown Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand hole), 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 | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 remain | advmod |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 remain | aux |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 5 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hole | compound |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 remain | nsubj |
| 7 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 asked | advcl |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 remain | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 full | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 remain | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain in a quote | can | a sand hole | full property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | hole | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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