The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 33
‘And then?’ asked the fir-tree, trembling in every limb with eagerness, ‘and then? what happens then?’
What happens: ask, tremble, happen · To what, where: fir tree, limb · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 asked | cc |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 asked | advmod |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 then | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 8 | fir | fir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tree | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 fir | punct |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 trembling | punct |
| 12 | trembling | tremble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 limb | case |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 limb | det |
| 15 | limb | limb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 trembling | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 eagerness | case |
| 17 | eagerness | eagerness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 limb | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ‘ | punct |
| 19 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 limb | conj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 happens | cc |
| 21 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 happens | advmod |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 21 then | punct |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 24 happens | nsubj |
| 24 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 25 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 happens | advmod |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
| 27 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 24 happens | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the fir tree | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tremble | gerund | every limb with eagerness and ‘ | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in limb=Location | |||||
| 3 | happen | present | then; then | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 5615 (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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