The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 91
Then the troll asked again: ‘Where is my heart?’
Who acts: troll · What happens: ask, be · 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 (troll), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 troll | det |
| 3 | troll | troll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 asked | advmod |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 heart | 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 | 4 asked | parataxis |
| 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 | ask speech: ask | past | the troll | then; again | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | present | my heart | 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 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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