The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 99
‘You know my brother, then?’ inquired the giant.
Who acts: You · What happens: know, inquire · To what, where: brother, giant
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 (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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 inquired | parataxis |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 brother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 know | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 giant | det |
| 12 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | my brother | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer brother=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the giant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent giant=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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