The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4, sentence 60
‘What?’ he gasped--‘what is this dreadful thing?
Who acts: king · What happens: gasp, be · To what, where: dreadful thing
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | _ | 6 gasped | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 gasped | obj |
| 3 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 What | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 gasped | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gasped | nsubj |
| 6 | gasped | gasp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 thing | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 thing | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 thing | cop |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 thing | det |
| 12 | dreadful | dreadful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thing | amod |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gasped | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 gasped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gasp | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | this dreadful thing | 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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