The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 111

I asked her what made her cry, and where the lord of the castle was, for I wondered greatly that I saw no stir of servants or any person about the place.

Who acts: I, woman, lord · What happens: ask, make, cry, be, wonder, see · To what, where: woman, stir, servants · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, woman, lord), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	ccomp
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 made	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 wondered	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 wondered	cc
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 was	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 lord	det
12	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 was	nsubj
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 castle	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 castle	det
15	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lord	nmod
16	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wondered	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 was	punct
18	for	for	SCONJ	_	20 wondered	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 wondered	nsubj
20	wondered	wonder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
21	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	20 wondered	advmod
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 saw	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 saw	nsubj
24	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 wondered	advcl
25	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	26 stir	det
26	stir	stir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 saw	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 servants	case
28	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 stir	nmod
29	or	or	CCONJ	_	31 person	cc
30	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 person	det
31	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stir	conj
32	about	about	ADP	_	34 place	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 place	det
34	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 person	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	I		woman		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	make	past		woman			tree rules
3	cry speech: express	infinitive	woman not said here				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	be	past	the lord of the castle				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	wonder speech: ask	past	I			greatly property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	see	past	I	no stir of servants or any person about the place			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer stir=Stimulus
7	stir			servants			nom stir «state transitive»: of=patient

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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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