The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 80
‘Is that what you want?’ cried the old woman.
Who acts: you · What happens: be, want, cry · To what, where: old woman
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), 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 | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | cop |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 what | mark |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | acl:relcl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 what | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 woman | amod |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the old woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Topic |
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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