The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 19
‘What harm is there in that, lady?’ answered Luned.
Who acts: lady · What happens: be, answer · To what, where: that, 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 (lady), 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 | _ | 5 there | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 there | nsubj |
| 3 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 there | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | cop |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 that | case |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 there | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 9 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 lady | punct |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 there | parataxis |
| 13 | Luned | Luned | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 there | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | that | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | lady | Luned | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent luned=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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