The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 120

‘And what may that be?’ asked Manawyddan.

Who acts: that · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Manawyddan · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	_	6 be	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 be	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 be	obj
4	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 be	aux
5	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 be	nsubj
6	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 asked	ccomp
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
8	’	'	PUNCT	_	6 be	punct
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	Manawyddan	Manawyddan	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 asked	iobj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	may	that						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			Manawyddan				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent manawyddan=Recipient clause=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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