The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1, sentence 111

‘But, mother dear, what’s the matter with you?’ repeated Jem, quite frightened.

Who acts: mother · What happens: be, repeat · To what, where: matter

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mother), 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	_	16 Jem	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	16 Jem	cc
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mother	punct
4	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 Jem	nsubj
5	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mother	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 matter	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 matter	nsubj
8	’s	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 matter	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 matter	det
10	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mother	appos
11	with	with	ADP	_	12 you	case
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 matter	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 matter	punct
14	’	'	PUNCT	_	10 matter	punct
15	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Jem	amod
16	Jem	Jem	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 frightened	punct
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 frightened	advmod
19	frightened	frightened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Jem	conj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 Jem	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	mother	the matter				with you	tree rules
2	repeat	participle							vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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