The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 103
‘Will she come if she is bidden?’ asked Kai, pondering.
Who acts: Olwen · What happens: come, bid, ask, ponder · To what, where: Olwen, Kai · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olwen), 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 come | punct |
| 2 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 come | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 come | nsubj |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 bidden | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 bidden | aux:pass |
| 8 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 come | advcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 come | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Kai | Kai | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | iobj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 pondering | punct |
| 14 | pondering | ponder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | future | Olwen | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bid a condition, not said to happen | present · passive | Olwen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Kai | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent kai=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ponder | gerund | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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