The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 65
‘Why did you throw stones at me?’ roared the sea-king.
Who acts: you · What happens: throw, roar · To what, where: stones, sea king
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: 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 | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 throw | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 throw | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 throw | nsubj |
| 5 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 roared | ccomp |
| 6 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 throw | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 throw | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 throw | punct |
| 11 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 13 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 king | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 sea | punct |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roared | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 roared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past · do-support | you | stones | at me | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at i=Destination | |||
| 2 | roar | past | the sea king | tree rules |
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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