The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3, sentence 36
Is he tired of life?’ asked the goddess Venus.
Who acts: sound · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: goddess Venus · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sound), 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 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tired | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 tired | nsubj |
| 3 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tired | obl |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 tired | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Venus | det |
| 10 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Venus | compound |
| 11 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | sound | of life; tired property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the goddess Venus | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent venus=Recipient |
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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