The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 101
‘What’s that you’re humming?’ asked the old man.
Who acts: you · What happens: 're, hum, ask · To what, where: old man
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 ’s | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 ’re | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 ’re | nsubj |
| 6 | ’re | 're | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | advcl |
| 7 | humming | hum | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ’re | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 humming | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 ’re | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 ’s | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 man | amod |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 're | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hum | gerund | you not said here | vn bulge-47.5.3 «NP V»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the old man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=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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