The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 32
Still, the dwarf did not feel quite sure that all was right, and asked what the magician wanted with a bird-catcher.
Who acts: all, magician · What happens: not feel, be, ask, want · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, magician), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 4 dwarf | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dwarf | det |
| 4 | dwarf | dwarf | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | advcl |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 feel | advmod |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 9 sure | advmod |
| 9 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 feel | xcomp |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 right | mark |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 right | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 right | cop |
| 13 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sure | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 asked | cc |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 feel | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 20 wanted | obj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 magician | det |
| 19 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanted | nsubj |
| 20 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 catcher | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 catcher | det |
| 23 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 catcher | compound |
| 24 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 23 bird | punct |
| 25 | catcher | catcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wanted | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 feel | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not feel | past · do-support | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | is | past | all | right property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | want | past | the magician | with a bird catcher | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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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