The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36, sentence 27
‘What is the matter, my dove?’ and the girl answered, between her sobs:
Who acts: matter, woman · What happens: be, answer, sob · To what, where: matter, sobs
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 36. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter, woman), 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 | _ | 5 matter | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 matter | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 matter | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 matter | det |
| 5 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dove | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 dove | nmod:poss |
| 8 | dove | dove | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 dove | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 dove | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 girl | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 girl | det |
| 13 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 matter | conj |
| 14 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sobs | punct |
| 16 | between | between | ADP | _ | 18 sobs | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sobs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sobs | sob | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 answered | obj |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 sobs | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the matter and the girl | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the matter and the girl | woman's sobs | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent sob=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | sob | woman | nom sob «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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