The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 39
‘What does fortune matter?’ repeated Barbaik, in a shocked voice.
Who acts: fortune · What happens: matter, repeat · To what, where: Barbaik, shocked voice
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), 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 | root | root |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 8 | repeated | repeat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 matter | xcomp |
| 9 | Barbaik | Barbaik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 voice | punct |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | shocked | shocked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 repeated | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 matter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present · do-support | fortune | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | repeat | participle | fortune not said here | Barbaik | a shocked voice | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barbaik=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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