The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 56
‘What reward dost thou ask?’ answered the king’s son.
What happens: reward, do, ask, answer · To what, where: thou, 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: 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 reward | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 reward | nsubj |
| 3 | reward | reward | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 answered | advcl |
| 4 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 reward | ccomp |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 dost | obj |
| 6 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 reward | xcomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 reward | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 reward | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 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 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | present | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the king's son | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent son=Eventuality |
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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