The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 130

‘Who is it that thus laments in this house of stone?’

What happens: be · To what, where: wall

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 it	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 it	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 it	cop
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 laments	mark
6	thus	thus	ADV	_	7 laments	advmod
7	laments	lament	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 it	nmod
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 house	case
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 house	det
10	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laments	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 stone	case
12	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 house	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 laments	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 laments	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		wall				laments in this house of stone nmod	tree rules

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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