The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 1
‘Why was she crying?’ inquired the prince.
Who acts: she · What happens: cry, inquire · To what, where: prince · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (she), 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 crying | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 crying | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 crying | aux |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 crying | nsubj |
| 5 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 inquired | ccomp |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 crying | punct |
| 8 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 prince | det |
| 10 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 inquired | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past · progressive | she | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prince=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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