The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 49

‘What dost thou here?’ she asked, laying her hand on the bowl, and as she spoke she too stuck fast, and was not able to utter a word.

Who acts: centre · What happens: do, ask, lay, speak, not be, utter · To what, where: thou, hand, bowl, Rhiannon, word · Speech: someone speaks here

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: who acts (centre), 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	_	3 dost	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 dost	obj
3	dost	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	ccomp
4	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 dost	obj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 dost	advmod
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 dost	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 dost	punct
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 asked	nsubj
9	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 laying	punct
11	laying	lay	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 asked	advcl
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hand	nmod:poss
13	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laying	obj
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 bowl	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 bowl	det
16	bowl	bowl	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 laying	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spoke	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 spoke	cc
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 spoke	mark
20	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spoke	nsubj
21	spoke	speak	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 asked	parataxis
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 spoke	obj
23	too	too	ADV	_	24 stuck	advmod
24	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 spoke	advcl
25	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 stuck	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 able	cc
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 able	cop
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 able	advmod
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 asked	ccomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 utter	mark
32	utter	utter	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 word	det
34	word	word	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 utter	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	present		thou	here		tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	centre				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lay	gerund	centre not said here	centre's hand	the bowl		vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on bowl=Destination
4	speak speech: other	past	centre	Rhiannon			tree rules
5	not is	past				able property	tree rules
6	utter speech: other	to-infinitive		a word			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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