The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 77
‘It belongs to a widowed countess,’ answered the maiden.
Who acts: castle · What happens: belong, widow, answer · To what, where: maiden
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 (castle), 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 belongs | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 belongs | nsubj |
| 3 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 countess | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 countess | det |
| 6 | widowed | widow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 countess | amod |
| 7 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 countess | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 countess | punct |
| 10 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 belongs | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 maiden | det |
| 12 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 answered | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 belongs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | present | castle | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | widow | participle | vn orphan-29.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the maiden | to a widowed countess | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent maiden=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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