The Yellow Fairy Book, The Blue Mountains, sentence 151
He asked the old woman what was causing all the noise and light in the town.
Who acts: Irishman · What happens: ask, cause · To what, where: old woman, noise, town · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Blue Mountains. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Irishman), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 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 | 5 woman | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 woman | amod |
| 5 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 causing | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 causing | aux |
| 8 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 noise | det:predet |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 noise | det |
| 11 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causing | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 light | cc |
| 13 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 noise | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 town | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 town | det |
| 16 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 causing | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Irishman | the old woman | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent woman=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | cause | past · progressive | all noise and light | the town | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition noise=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 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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