The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 31

‘What aileth thee, my son?’ asked his father at last, when Kilweh had forgotten something he had been bidden to do, and Kilweh blushed red as he answered:

Who acts: Kilweh, man · What happens: ail, ask, forget, bid, do, blush · To what, where: thee, father, last, something, man

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 (Kilweh, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	3 aileth	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 aileth	nsubj
3	aileth	ail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	3 aileth	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 son	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 son	nmod:poss
7	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thee	vocative
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 aileth	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 aileth	punct
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 aileth	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 asked	iobj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 last	case
14	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 asked	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 forgotten	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 forgotten	advmod
17	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 forgotten	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 forgotten	aux
19	forgotten	forget	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	parataxis
20	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	19 forgotten	obj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bidden	nsubj
22	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 bidden	aux
23	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 bidden	aux:pass
24	bidden	bid	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 something	acl:relcl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 do	mark
26	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 bidden	xcomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 blushed	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 blushed	cc
29	Kilweh	Kilweh	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 blushed	nsubj
30	blushed	blush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 forgotten	conj
31	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 blushed	xcomp
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 answered	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 answered	nsubj
34	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 blushed	advcl
35	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 aileth	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ail	present		thee				vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V NP.experiencer»: agent=Patient thou=Experiencer
2	ask speech: ask	past			man's father	last		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient
3	forget	past · perfect	Kilweh	something				tree rules
4	bid	past · perfect · passive		man				tree rules
5	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	blush	past	Kilweh				red property	vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	answer speech: assert	past	man					vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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