The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 23
‘What is the matter, O son of a king?’ asked they, breathless with running.
Who acts: attendants · What happens: be, ask, run · To what, where: matter · 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 (attendants), 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 matter | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 7 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 son | case |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 son | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 breathless | punct |
| 17 | breathless | breathless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 asked | parataxis |
| 18 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 19 running | mark |
| 19 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 breathless | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | attendants = attendant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | run | gerund | attendants = attendant not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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