The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32, sentence 116

‘ asked the lindorm with a hideous voice.

Who acts: ‘ · What happens: ask · To what, where: lindorm

This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (‘), 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	‘	‘	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lindorm	det
4	lindorm	lindorm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 voice	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 voice	det
7	hideous	hideous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 voice	amod
8	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 asked	obl
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	‘	the lindorm				with a hideous voice	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lindorm=Recipient

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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