The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2, sentence 101
‘What has his highness ordered for luncheon?’ asked the head cook.
Who acts: highness · What happens: have, order, ask · To what, where: head cook
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (highness), 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 has | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 highness | nmod:poss |
| 5 | highness | highness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | nsubj |
| 6 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | parataxis |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 luncheon | case |
| 8 | luncheon | luncheon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ordered | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 has | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cook | det |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cook | compound |
| 14 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | order | past | cook's highness | for luncheon | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for luncheon=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the head cook | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cook=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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