The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 47
‘And what is your business at Kerglas?’ asked the lion with a growl, and showing his teeth.
Who acts: business · What happens: be, ask, show · To what, where: business, Kerglas, lion, teeth
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 (business), 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 | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 business | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 business | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 business | cop |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 business | nmod:poss |
| 6 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 Kerglas | case |
| 8 | Kerglas | Kerglas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 business | nmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 business | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lion | det |
| 13 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 growl | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 growl | det |
| 16 | growl | growl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lion | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 showing | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 showing | cc |
| 19 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 21 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 showing | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | your business | Kerglas | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | your business | the lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show | gerund | your business not said here | lion's teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=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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