The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 95
‘What manner of thief is that?’ inquired the scholar.
Who acts: manner · What happens: be, inquire · To what, where: scholar · 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 (manner), 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 is | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 manner | det |
| 3 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 is | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 thief | case |
| 5 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 manner | nmod |
| 6 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 inquired | ccomp |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 is | nsubj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 is | punct |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 scholar | det |
| 12 | scholar | scholar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | what manner of thief | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | the scholar | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent scholar=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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