The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 100
‘What aileth thee, mistress?’ inquired the maiden.
What happens: ail, inquire · To what, where: thee, maiden
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30. 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 aileth | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 aileth | nsubj |
| 3 | aileth | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 aileth | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mistress | punct |
| 6 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 aileth | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 aileth | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 inquired | punct |
| 9 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 aileth | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inquired | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 aileth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ail | present | thee | mistress obl | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the maiden | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent maiden=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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