The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 60
‘What news is there of my sister?’ asked the young man, with whom things had gone badly, for he was idle.
Who acts: sister, things, news · What happens: be, ask, go · To what, where: young man
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 (sister, things, news), 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 | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 is | obj |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 sister | cop |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sister | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sister | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 sister | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 gone | punct |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 whom | case |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 gone | obl |
| 18 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gone | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | aux |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 gone | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 idle | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 idle | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 idle | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 idle | cop |
| 26 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gone | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | of my sister | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | my sister | the young man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | go | past · perfect | things | badly property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with whom=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | is | past | news | idle property | tree rules |
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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