The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 48
‘But how can we do that?’ asked the Black Rogue.
Who acts: we · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: that, Black Rogue · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 do | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 do | advmod |
| 4 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | aux |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 do | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Rogue | det |
| 12 | Black | Black | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Rogue | compound |
| 13 | Rogue | Rogue | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | we | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Black Rogue | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent rogue=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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