The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9, sentence 118
‘Why, what have you done to the Bonnach stone?’ asked the giant.
Who acts: you · What happens: do, ask · To what, where: giant · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 done | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 done | obj |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 done | nsubj |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 stone | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stone | det |
| 10 | Bonnach | Bonnach | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 stone | compound |
| 11 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 giant | det |
| 16 | giant | giant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present · perfect | you | to the Bonnach stone | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the giant | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent giant=Recipient clause=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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