The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 82
‘What is the matter?’ asked the beggar, drawing a little nearer.
What happens: be, ask, draw · To what, where: matter, beggar · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 12. 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 | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 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 | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 beggar | det |
| 10 | beggar | beggar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 drawing | punct |
| 12 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 little | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nearer | obl |
| 15 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 drawing | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the beggar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent beggar=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | draw | gerund | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/12/82/