The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 32
‘Who is it whispering in the golden pot, Groac’h?’ he inquired at last.
Who acts: Houarn · What happens: whisper, inquire · To what, where: Groac’h, golden pot, last
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 (Houarn), 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 whispering | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 whispering | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 whispering | aux |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 whispering | nsubj |
| 5 | whispering | whisper | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 inquired | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 pot | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pot | det |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pot | amod |
| 9 | pot | pot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whispering | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Groac’h | punct |
| 11 | Groac’h | Groac'h | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 whispering | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispering | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispering | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 inquired | nsubj |
| 15 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 last | case |
| 17 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 inquired | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | present · progressive | Groac’h | the golden pot | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pot=Location | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Houarn | last | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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