The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 4
‘What is the matter with you?’ said he gently, and, as she only sobbed louder, he continued:
Who acts: she, master · What happens: be, say, sob, continue · 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 (she, master), 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 | 10 said | ccomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 matter | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gently | nsubj |
| 12 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 10 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 continued | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 continued | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 sobbed | mark |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sobbed | nsubj |
| 18 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 sobbed | advmod |
| 19 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 continued | advcl |
| 20 | louder | loud | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 sobbed | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sobbed | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 continued | nsubj |
| 23 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter | with you | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | sob | past | she | loud property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | master | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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