The Violet Fairy Book, The Boys With the Golden Stars, sentence 103
What boys are they?’ said the emperor all in one breath.
Who acts: boys · What happens: be, say · To what, where: emperor, one breath · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Boys With the Golden Stars. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boys), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 said | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 What | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 emperor | det |
| 9 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 13 breath | advmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 breath | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 breath | nummod |
| 13 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boys | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the emperor | one breath | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent emperor=Theme in breath=Manner |
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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