The Pink Fairy Book, The Pink Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 99

What sort of a dead body is it that can still feel when it is tickled?’

Who acts: sort · What happens: be, tickle, sort · To what, where: sort, dead body

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: who acts (sort), 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	What	what	DET	PronType=Int	2 sort	det
2	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 feel	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	6 body	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 body	det
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 body	amod
6	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sort	nmod
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	cop
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 feel	nsubj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 feel	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 feel	aux
11	still	still	ADV	_	12 feel	advmod
12	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 tickled	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 tickled	nsubj:pass
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 tickled	aux:pass
16	tickled	tickle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 feel	advcl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct
18	’	'	PUNCT	_	12 feel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	can · present	what sort of a dead body		still	feel property	tree rules
2	tickle	present · passive		sort			vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
3	sort			a dead body			nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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