The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 39, sentence 66
‘Whence comest thou, O man?’ asked they, ‘and whose is that castle?’
Who acts: men · What happens: come, ask, be · To what, where: thou, castle · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (men), 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 comest | punct |
| 2 | Whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 comest | advmod |
| 3 | comest | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 comest | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
| 6 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 7 man | discourse |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 comest | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 comest | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 comest | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 castle | punct |
| 13 | ‘ | ‘ | PUNCT | _ | 18 castle | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 castle | cc |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 18 castle | nmod:poss |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 castle | cop |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 castle | det |
| 18 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 castle | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 18 castle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | present | thou | man obl; whence property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location thou=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | men = man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that castle | 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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