The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 7
‘Who has cooked this feast?’ asked he, and the real cook, who had come back from the race, was brought before him.
Who acts: real cook · What happens: cook, ask, come back, bring · To what, where: feast, real cook, kitchen, race
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 (real cook), 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 | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 cooked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 cooked | aux |
| 4 | cooked | cook | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cooked | obj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 cooked | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cook | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 cook | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cook | det |
| 14 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cook | amod |
| 15 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 come | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 come | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 come | aux |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 cook | acl:relcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 come | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 race | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 race | det |
| 23 | race | race | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 come | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 brought | punct |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 brought | aux:pass |
| 26 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 27 | before | before | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brought | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cook | present · perfect · passive | this feast | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary feast=Product | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the real cook | kitchen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | come back | past · perfect | the real cook | the race | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from race=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | bring | past · passive | before kitchen | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: before he=Destination |
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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