The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 136
‘Does your bride please you?’ asked the Gruagach, who was standing at his own door.
Who acts: Gruagach · What happens: do, ask, stand · To what, where: bride, Gruagach, own door
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 (Gruagach), 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 | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 2 | Does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bride | nmod:poss |
| 4 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Does | obj |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 you | discourse |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 Does | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Does | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Gruagach | det |
| 11 | Gruagach | Gruagach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 standing | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 standing | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 standing | aux |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 Gruagach | acl |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 door | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 door | amod |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 standing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | your bride | you obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bride=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Gruagach | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | the Gruagach | King's own door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location |
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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