The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 122

‘And what is the prize that you will choose?’ inquired the Gruagach.

Who acts: prize · What happens: be, choose, inquire · To what, where: prize, 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 (prize), 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	_	13 inquired	punct
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 prize	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 prize	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 prize	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 prize	det
6	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inquired	nsubj
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 choose	nsubj
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 choose	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 choose	aux
10	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prize	acl:relcl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 choose	punct
13	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Gruagach	det
15	Gruagach	Gruagach	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 inquired	obj
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present		the prize		tree rules
2	choose	future	the prize			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	inquire speech: other	past	the prize		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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