The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 36
‘What is it?’ asked Houarn, beginning to feel uncomfortable.
Who acts: fish · What happens: be, ask, begin, feel · To what, where: fish, Houarn
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 (fish), 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 | _ | 7 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 it | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 it | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 it | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Houarn | Houarn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | iobj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 beginning | punct |
| 10 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 asked | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 feel | mark |
| 12 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beginning | xcomp |
| 13 | uncomfortable | uncomfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 feel | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | fish | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | fish | Houarn | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent houarn=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | begin | gerund | fish not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | feel | to-infinitive | fish not said here | uncomfortable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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