The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 34, sentence 77
‘But where am I to find a young man’s clothes?’ asked she.
Who acts: I · What happens: be, find, ask · To what, where: clothes, Groac’h · 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 (I), 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 find | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 find | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 find | advmod |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 where | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 man | case |
| 12 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 7 find | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | a young man's clothes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Groac’h = groac'h | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=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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