The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 26
‘And what bridge may this be?’ asked the Shifty Lad; and the princess told him that this was the bridge of Dublin.
Who acts: princess, this · What happens: be, ask, tell · To what, where: Shifty Lad, Lad, bridge · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (princess, this), 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 what | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 what | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 asked | obj |
| 4 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 may | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 may | conj |
| 7 | be | be | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 this | parataxis |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 be | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 may | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lad | det |
| 12 | Shifty | shifty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Lad | amod |
| 13 | Lad | Lad | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | iobj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 told | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | nsubj |
| 18 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 told | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 bridge | mark |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 bridge | nsubj |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 bridge | cop |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bridge | det |
| 24 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 told | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Dublin | case |
| 26 | Dublin | Dublin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 bridge | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Shifty Lad | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the princess | Lad | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | this | the bridge | of Dublin | tree rules |
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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