The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 52
‘Hast thou news from the gate?’ and the porter answered:
Who acts: porter · What happens: have, answer · To what, where: thou, gate
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 (porter), 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 | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 2 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Hast | obj |
| 4 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hast | obj |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Hast | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 answered | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 porter | det |
| 12 | porter | porter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Hast | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | thou | the gate | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the porter | 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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