The Violet Fairy Book, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water., sentence 7
‘What can this be?’ thought he.
Who acts: this · What happens: be, think · To what, where: back
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this), 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 | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 thought | obj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 thought | aux |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | be | be | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 this | parataxis |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 be | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 this | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | infinitive | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | can | this | back | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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