The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 25

‘What can that be?’ asked he.

Who acts: that · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: hermit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (that), 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	_	5 be	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 be	obj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 be	aux
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 be	nsubj
5	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	ccomp
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 be	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 asked	iobj
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	can	can	that						vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past			hermit				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=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 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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