The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 92

‘What is it?’ he asked, and she answered that the knight who owned the castle was dead, and they were bearing his body to the church.

Who acts: outcry, drawbridge, knight, knights · What happens: be, ask, answer, own, bear · To what, where: outcry, castle, body

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: who acts (outcry, drawbridge, knight, knights), 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	_	8 asked	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 it	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj:outer
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
6	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 it	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	nsubj
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 answered	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 answered	cc
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 answered	nsubj
12	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 asked	parataxis
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 dead	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 knight	det
15	knight	knight	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dead	nsubj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 owned	nsubj
17	owned	own	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 knight	acl:relcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 castle	det
19	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 owned	obj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 dead	cop
21	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 answered	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 bearing	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bearing	cc
24	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 bearing	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 bearing	aux
26	bearing	bear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 asked	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 body	nmod:poss
28	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bearing	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 church	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 church	det
31	church	church	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 bearing	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present		outcry		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	outcry			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	answer speech: assert	past	drawbridge			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	own	past	the knight	the castle		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot castle=Theme
5	is	past	the knight		dead property	tree rules
6	bear	past · progressive	knights = knight	horse's body	to the church	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent body=Patient

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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