The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 51
‘Are you so lonely, then?’ inquired Tephany, full of pity.
Who acts: you, lonely · What happens: be, inquire · To what, where: Tephany
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 (you, lonely), 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 lonely | punct |
| 2 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lonely | cop |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 lonely | nsubj |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 lonely | advmod |
| 5 | lonely | lonely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 inquired | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lonely | punct |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 lonely | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lonely | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 lonely | punct |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Tephany | Tephany | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 full | punct |
| 13 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Tephany | amod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pity | case |
| 15 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 full | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | then | lonely property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | lonely | Tephany | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tephany=Recipient |
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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