The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 61
‘How did you find me out?’ she whispered as they went down the passage.
Who acts: you, princess, fairies · What happens: find out, whisper, go down · To what, where: me, passage · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, princess, fairies), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 find | compound:prt |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 whispered | nsubj |
| 11 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 went | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 whispered | ccomp |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 passage | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 passage | det |
| 17 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | past · do-support | you | me | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Topic | ||||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | princess | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go down | past | fairies = fairy | the passage | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient passage=Extent |
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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