The Green Fairy Book, The Golden Lads, sentence 61

He enquired: ‘And who is the bridegroom?’

Who acts: brother · What happens: enquire, be · To what, where: bridegroom

This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Lads. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 enquired	nsubj
2	enquired	enquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 enquired	punct
4	‘	'	PUNCT	_	9 bridegroom	punct
5	And	and	CCONJ	_	9 bridegroom	cc
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bridegroom	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bridegroom	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bridegroom	det
9	bridegroom	bridegroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 enquired	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 bridegroom	punct
11	’	'	PUNCT	_	9 bridegroom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enquire speech: other	past	brother						vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the bridegroom					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 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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