The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 60
‘What’s the name of this little stone in the middle of the ocean?’ asked one of them.
Who acts: name · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: name, one
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 (name), 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 name | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 name | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 name | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 name | det |
| 5 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 stone | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 stone | det |
| 8 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stone | amod |
| 9 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 name | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 middle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 middle | det |
| 12 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stone | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 ocean | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ocean | det |
| 15 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 middle | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 name | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 asked | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 one | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the name | of this little stone in the middle of the ocean | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the name | one of students | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=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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