The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 25
The young man glanced up in surprise, and asked who was there.
Who acts: young man · What happens: glance up, ask, be · To what, where: young man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | glanced | glance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 man | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 glanced | compound:prt |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 surprise | case |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 glanced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 there | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 there | cop |
| 13 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance up | participle | the young man not said here | in surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the young man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | there property | tree rules |
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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