The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 5
‘And was I not right to do it, seeing that your soul is in it?’ asked the queen.
Who acts: I, soul, ‘ · What happens: not be, see, be, ask · To what, where: threshold, queen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, soul, ‘), 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 do | cc |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 do | cop |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 do | nsubj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 do | advmod |
| 6 | right | right | ADV | _ | 8 do | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 ‘ | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 do | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 11 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 do | advcl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 it | mark |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 soul | nmod:poss |
| 14 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 it | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 it | cop |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seeing | ccomp |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 seeing | punct |
| 19 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 do | punct |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 queen | det |
| 22 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 asked | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | I | do, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | your soul | threshold | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | ‘ | the queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=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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