The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 43
‘Is there a raven hereabouts?’ asked the king’s son, and the youth answered:
Who acts: raven hereabouts, youth · What happens: be, ask, answer · To what, where: raven hereabouts, son
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 (raven hereabouts, 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 | _ | 6 hereabouts | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 hereabouts | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 raven | det |
| 5 | raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hereabouts | compound |
| 6 | hereabouts | hereabout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 hereabouts | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 hereabouts | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 king | case |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 answered | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 youth | det |
| 17 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 answered | nsubj |
| 18 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | raven hereabouts | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | raven hereabouts | the king's son | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the youth | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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