The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 42
His next question will be, “Where is my heart?”
Who acts: next question, father · What happens: be, question · To what, where: heart
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (next question, father), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 question | nmod:poss |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 question | amod |
| 3 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heart | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 heart | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 heart | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 Where | punct |
| 8 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 heart | advmod |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 heart | cop |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 heart | nmod:poss |
| 11 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | future | father's next question | my heart | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | question | father | nom question «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg5615/27/42/