The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 11
‘What news from the court?’ asked her mistress, when she had given Luned a warm greeting.
Who acts: news · What happens: news, ask, give · To what, where: court, mistress, warm greeting, Luned
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (news), 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 news | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 news | nsubj |
| 3 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 court | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 court | det |
| 6 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 news | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 news | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 mistress | nmod:poss |
| 11 | mistress | mistress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 given | punct |
| 13 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 16 given | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 given | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 given | aux |
| 16 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | Luned | Luned | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 given | iobj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 greeting | det |
| 19 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 greeting | amod |
| 20 | greeting | greeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 given | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | news | the court | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | news | news's mistress | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mistress=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | give | past · perfect | news | a warm greeting | Luned | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent luned=Recipient greeting=Theme |
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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