The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 58
‘Did you hear what he said?’ inquired the charcoal-burner in an awe-stricken voice.
Who acts: you, end · What happens: hear, say, inquire · To what, where: charcoal burner, stricken voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, end), 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 hear | punct |
| 2 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 hear | nsubj |
| 4 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 inquired | ccomp |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hear | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 hear | punct |
| 10 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 burner | det |
| 12 | charcoal | charcoal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burner | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 charcoal | punct |
| 14 | burner | burner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 inquired | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 voice | case |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 voice | det |
| 17 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stricken | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 awe | punct |
| 19 | stricken | stricken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 voice | amod |
| 20 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 burner | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 inquired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past · do-support | you | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | end | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | the charcoal burner | a stricken voice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent burner=Recipient clause=Topic |
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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