The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 99
‘But what sort of a tree is it, and how did it get here?’ he asked of the attendants he had with him.
Who acts: sort, king · What happens: be, get, ask, have, sort · To what, where: sort, attendants, tree · 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 (sort, 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 it | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 it | cc |
| 3 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 sort | det |
| 4 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 it | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sort | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 it | cop |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 get | cc |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 get | advmod |
| 13 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 get | aux |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | nsubj |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 asked | ccomp |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 18 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 get | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 asked | nsubj |
| 20 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 attendants | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 attendants | det |
| 23 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 asked | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 attendants | acl:relcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | what sort of a tree | sort | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | get | past · do-support | sort | here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king | of the attendants | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of attendant=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | have | past | king | the attendants not said here | with cock | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Patient | |||
| 5 | sort | a tree | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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