The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 36
Then she asked if they knew anything about the three bulrushes, but not one of them did.
Who acts: woman, crows, one · What happens: ask, know, do · To what, where: anything
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, crows, one), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 knew | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 knew | nsubj |
| 6 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 6 knew | obj |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 11 bulrushes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bulrushes | det |
| 10 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 bulrushes | nummod |
| 11 | bulrushes | bulrush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 anything | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 did | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 did | cc |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 one | advmod |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 did | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 one | nmod |
| 18 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | woman | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | crows = crow | anything | about the three bulrushes | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | do | past | one of crows | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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