The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 81
‘Whose is this castle, O herdsmen?’ asked the knights.
Who acts: castle · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: castle, knights
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 (castle), 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 | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 2 | Whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 5 castle | nmod:poss |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 castle | cop |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 castle | det |
| 5 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 herdsmen | punct |
| 7 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 8 herdsmen | case |
| 8 | herdsmen | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 castle | appos |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 herdsmen | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 herdsmen | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 knights | det |
| 13 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this castle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | this castle | the knights | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent knight=Recipient |
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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