The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 56
‘What craft wilt thou follow?’ asked Kieva as they went along.
Who acts: craft, dogs · What happens: follow, ask, go along · To what, where: Kieva · 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 (craft, dogs), 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 | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 craft | det |
| 3 | craft | craft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 4 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 6 follow | aux |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 follow | nsubj |
| 6 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 follow | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Kieva | Kieva | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 went | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | future | what craft | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Kieva | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent kieva=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | go along | past | dogs = dog | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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