The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 100

No one could answer him, but as they were about to pass out of the forest a little boy went by, and the king stopped and inquired if there was anyone living in the neighbourhood whom he might question.

Who acts: one, trees, little boy, king, anyone · What happens: answer, be, pass out, go by, stop, inquire · To what, where: king, forest, neighbourhood

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, trees, little boy, king), 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	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answer	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	aux
4	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 answer	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 about	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 about	cc
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 about	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 about	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 about	cop
11	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 answer	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 pass	mark
13	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 about	xcomp
14	out	out	ADP	_	17 forest	case
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 pass	obl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 boy	det
19	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 boy	amod
20	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 went	nsubj
21	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 forest	acl:relcl
22	by	by	ADP	_	21 went	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 stopped	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 stopped	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 king	det
26	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 stopped	nsubj
27	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 answer	parataxis
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 inquired	cc
29	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 stopped	conj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	32 was	mark
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 inquired	ccomp
33	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	32 was	nsubj
34	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 anyone	acl
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 neighbourhood	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 neighbourhood	det
37	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 living	obl
38	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 question	obj
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 question	nsubj
40	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 question	aux
41	question	question	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 neighbourhood	acl:relcl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	could	no one		king			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality
2	is	past	trees = tree				about property	tree rules
3	pass out	to-infinitive	trees = tree not said here	the forest				vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent forest=Theme
4	go by	past	a little boy	the forest not said here				vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=Theme
5	stop	past	the king					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
6	inquire speech: other	past	the king not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	be a condition, not said to happen	past	anyone			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	live	gerund				the neighbourhood		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in neighbourhood=Location
9	question speech: other	might	king		the neighbourhood			vn interrogate-37.1.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient

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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