The Violet Fairy Book, A Tale of the Tontlawald, sentence 54
‘The sea?’ asked Elsa, staring; ‘what is that?
Who acts: sea, that · What happens: ask, stare, be · To what, where: Elsa
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: who acts (sea, that), 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 | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 sea | det |
| 3 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 sea | punct |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | Elsa | Elsa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | iobj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 staring | punct |
| 9 | staring | stare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 asked | parataxis |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 what | cop |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 what | nsubj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the sea | Elsa | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elsa=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | stare | gerund | the sea not said here | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | tree rules |
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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