The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 92
‘What can that commotion be by the pigsties?’ asked the Emperor, who was standing on the balcony.
Who acts: commotion, pigsties, Emperor · What happens: be, ask, stand · To what, where: Emperor, balcony
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (commotion, pigsties, Emperor), 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 | _ | 12 asked | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 asked | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pigsties | aux |
| 4 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 commotion | det |
| 5 | commotion | commotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pigsties | nsubj |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pigsties | cop |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 pigsties | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 pigsties | det |
| 9 | pigsties | pigsty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 asked | nsubj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 pigsties | punct |
| 11 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 pigsties | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Emperor | det |
| 14 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 standing | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 standing | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 standing | aux |
| 18 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 Emperor | acl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 balcony | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 balcony | det |
| 21 | balcony | balcony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 standing | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | can | that commotion | by the pigsties | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the pigsties | the Emperor | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | stand | past · progressive | the Emperor | the balcony | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on balcony=Location |
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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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