The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 7, sentence 69
‘Why are you so silent?’ asked the man one morning when dinner had passed before his wife had uttered one word.
Who acts: you, wife · What happens: be, ask, pass, utter · To what, where: man, dinner, one word · 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, wife), 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 asked | parataxis |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 silent | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 silent | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 morning | nummod |
| 13 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 man | nmod:unmarked |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 passed | advmod |
| 15 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 passed | aux |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 uttered | mark |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 wife | nmod:poss |
| 20 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 uttered | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 uttered | aux |
| 22 | uttered | utter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 passed | advcl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 word | nummod |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 uttered | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | silent property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the man one morning | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent man=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect · passive | dinner | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | |||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past · perfect | Man's wife | one word | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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