The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 38
‘What does fortune matter when one is young and strong?’ asked Tephany, but her aunt, amazed at such words, would hardly let her finish.
Who acts: fortune, one, aunt · What happens: matter, be, ask, let, finish · To what, where: Tephany, fortune · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fortune, one, aunt), 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 matter | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | obj |
| 3 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | aux |
| 4 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 young | advmod |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 young | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 young | cop |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 matter | advcl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 strong | cc |
| 11 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 young | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | iobj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 let | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 let | cc |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 aunt | nmod:poss |
| 19 | aunt | aunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 let | nsubj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 amazed | punct |
| 21 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 aunt | amod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 words | case |
| 23 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 words | amod |
| 24 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 amazed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 aunt | punct |
| 26 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 let | aux |
| 27 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 28 let | advmod |
| 28 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 let | obj |
| 30 | finish | finish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 let | xcomp |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present · do-support | fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | present | one | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | one not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Tephany | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent tephany=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | let | would | fortune's aunt | fortune | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | finish | infinitive | fortune not said here | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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