The Brown Fairy Book, Story of Wali Dâd the Simple-Hearted, part 4, sentence 87
“What is the matter?” asked he, pausing and looking round.
What happens: be, ask, pause, look round · To what, where: matter · 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: 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 | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 asked | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 What | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pausing | punct |
| 11 | pausing | pause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 looking | cc |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 pausing | conj |
| 14 | round | round | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | matter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pause | gerund | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | look round | gerund | round property | 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 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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