The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 60
‘Why are you so silent?’ inquired the shark again.
Who acts: you, silent · What happens: be, inquire · To what, where: shark
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, silent), 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 silent | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 silent | advmod |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 silent | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 silent | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 silent | advmod |
| 6 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 inquired | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 silent | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 silent | punct |
| 9 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 shark | det |
| 11 | shark | shark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 inquired | obj |
| 12 | again | again | ADV | _ | 9 inquired | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | silent | the shark | again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent shark=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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