The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 110
‘What is pricking me so?’ asked Big Lion.
What happens: prick, ask · To what, where: me, Big Lion
This is a sentence of «The Pink Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35. 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 | _ | 4 pricking | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 pricking | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 pricking | aux |
| 4 | pricking | prick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 pricking | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 pricking | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 pricking | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 pricking | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Big | Big | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lion | compound |
| 11 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prick | present · progressive | me | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Patient | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Big Lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent lion=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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