The Violet Fairy Book, The Story of Halfman, sentence 5

‘But what is it?’ persisted the other.

What happens: be, persist · To what, where: house, other

This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Halfman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 what	punct
2	But	but	CCONJ	_	3 what	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 persisted	nsubj:outer
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 it	cop
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 what	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
8	persisted	persist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 other	det
10	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 persisted	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 persisted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		house					tree rules
2	persist	past		the other					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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