The Green Fairy Book, Fairy Gifts, sentence 24
‘Why, what was the matter?’ asked the Fairy.
What happens: be, ask · To what, where: matter, Fairy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Fairy Gifts. 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 | _ | 2 Why | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 matter | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 matter | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 matter | det |
| 7 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 matter | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Why | advcl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fairy | det |
| 12 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Why | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Fairy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fairy=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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