The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 119
‘O king, what has brought you here to-day?’ asked the Gruagach.
Who acts: king · What happens: bring, ask · To what, where: king, Gruagach
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8. 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 | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 king | discourse |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 brought | aux |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 king | acl:relcl |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 brought | obj |
| 9 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 brought | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 day | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 to | punct |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 brought | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 king | punct |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Gruagach | det |
| 17 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 asked | iobj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present · perfect · passive | king | here | day | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme you=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | king | the Gruagach | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent gruagach=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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