The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 57
‘What is that shining so brightly in the waves?’ asked Maie.
What happens: shine, ask · To what, where: waves, Maie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 shining | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 shining | obj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 shining | aux |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 shining | mark |
| 5 | shining | shine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 brightly | advmod |
| 7 | brightly | brightly | ADV | _ | 5 shining | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 waves | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 waves | det |
| 10 | waves | wave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shining | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 shining | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 shining | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Maie | Maie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | present · progressive | the waves | brightly property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent what=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Maie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent maie=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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