The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 26

‘It is really very odd about that house under the palms,’ he said to the queen; ‘I must find out something of the lady whom no one ever sees.

Who acts: deal, king, I, one · What happens: be, say, find out, see · To what, where: palms, queen, something · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (deal, king, I, one), 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	_	6 odd	punct
2	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 odd	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 odd	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 odd	advmod
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 odd	advmod
6	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 said	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 house	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 house	det
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 odd	obl
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 palms	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 palms	det
12	palms	palm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 odd	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 odd	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 odd	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 said	nsubj
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 queen	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 queen	det
19	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	24 find	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 find	nsubj
23	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 find	aux
24	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 said	conj
25	out	out	ADP	_	24 find	compound:prt
26	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 find	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 lady	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lady	det
29	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 something	nmod
30	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 sees	obj
31	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	32 one	det
32	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 sees	nsubj
33	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	34 sees	advmod
34	sees	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 something	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	deal			the palms		about that house; odd property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	king		the queen				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to queen=Recipient
3	find out	must	I	something					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
4	see	present	no one				ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus

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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