The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 8, sentence 137
‘Ah! does she not!’ answered the king quickly.
Who acts: bride · What happens: do, not answer · To what, where: king
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 (bride), 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 does | punct |
| 2 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 4 does | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Ah | punct |
| 4 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 answered | advmod |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 not | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 answered | punct |
| 9 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 does | ccomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 answered | obj |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 answered | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | past | bride | the king | quickly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg3454/8/137/