The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 116
“What castle is that out there,” asked the knight; “it seems to be made of black marble?”
Who acts: castle, knight, it · What happens: be, ask, seem, make · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (castle, knight, it), 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 | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 asked | obj |
| 3 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 What | cop |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 What | nsubj |
| 6 | out | out | ADV | _ | 7 there | advmod |
| 7 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 What | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | 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 knight | det |
| 12 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 seems | nsubj |
| 16 | seems | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 made | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 made | aux:pass |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 seems | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 marble | case |
| 21 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 marble | amod |
| 22 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obl |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 16 seems | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | castle | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the knight | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seem in a quote | present | it | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | of black marble | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP» |
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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