The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 22
The judge listened quietly and asked a few questions; then he gave his verdict.
Who acts: judge, man · What happens: listen, ask, give · To what, where: few questions, verdict
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (judge, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 judge | det |
| 2 | judge | judge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 3 listened | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 questions | det |
| 8 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 questions | amod |
| 9 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 asked | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 11 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 gave | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | nsubj |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 listened | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 verdict | nmod:poss |
| 15 | verdict | verdict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 gave | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the judge | quietly property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the judge not said here | a few questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | past | man | man's verdict | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent verdict=Theme |
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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