The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 24
‘After all, what does it matter?’ thought she.
What happens: matter, think · To what, where: mind, lightning
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, A Tale of the Tontlawald. 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 | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 2 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 all | case |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 thought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 matter | obj |
| 6 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | aux |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 matter | expl |
| 8 | matter | matter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 all | acl:relcl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 all | punct |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present · do-support | mind | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | lightning | after all | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot she=Theme |
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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