The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 107
‘Hast thou cleaned the byre, king’s son?’ asked he.
Who acts: thou, youth · What happens: have, clean, ask · To what, where: byre
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, youth), 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 | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 2 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 cleaned | nsubj |
| 4 | cleaned | clean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hast | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 byre | det |
| 6 | byre | byre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cleaned | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 son | punct |
| 8 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 king | case |
| 10 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 byre | conj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hast | conj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | clean | past | thou | the byre and king's son | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent byre=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | youth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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