The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 117
‘What work art thou upon?’ asked the bishop, drawing rein.
What happens: ask, draw · To what, where: bishop, rein
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 art | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 work | det |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 art | nsubj |
| 4 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 art | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 art | compound:prt |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 art | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bishop | det |
| 11 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drawing | punct |
| 13 | drawing | draw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | advcl |
| 14 | rein | rein | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 drawing | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the bishop | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bishop=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | draw | gerund | rein | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rein=Theme |
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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