The Blue Fairy Book, The History of Whittington, sentence 39
The factor, in surprise, turned round to the nobles and asked if these vermin were not offensive.
Who acts: vermin · What happens: turn round, ask, not be · To what, where: surprise, nobles
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Whittington. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vermin), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 factor | det |
| 2 | factor | factor | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 surprise | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 surprise | case |
| 5 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 factor | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 surprise | acl |
| 8 | round | round | ADV | _ | 7 turned | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 nobles | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 nobles | det |
| 11 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 turned | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 offensive | mark |
| 15 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 16 vermin | det |
| 16 | vermin | vermin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 offensive | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 offensive | cop |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 offensive | advmod |
| 19 | offensive | offensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 factor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn round | participle | surprise not said here | the nobles | round property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to noble=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | not is a condition, not said to happen | past | this vermin | offensive property | tree rules |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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