The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 94

And who is there that can teach him?’ the mother asked herself.

Who acts: that, mother · What happens: be, teach, ask · To what, where: there, Moti, sleep

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that, mother), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	7 teach	cc
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 there	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 there	cop
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	7 teach	expl
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 teach	nsubj
6	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 teach	aux
7	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 teach	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 teach	punct
10	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 teach	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 mother	det
12	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	nsubj
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 teach	parataxis
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 asked	obj
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 teach	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	is a	present		there			tree rules
2	teach speech: other	can	that		Moti	there	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	ask speech: ask	past	the mother	sleep			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent herself=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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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