The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 12

“Who has slain the lindworm?” he asked of his children; there were so many that he did not at first miss the two which the lindworm had eaten.

Who acts: lindworm, many · What happens: slay, ask, be, not miss, eat · To what, where: lindworm, two · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lindworm, many), 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	_	4 slain	punct
2	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 slain	nsubj
3	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slain	aux
4	slain	slay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 asked	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lindworm	det
6	lindworm	lindworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 slain	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 slain	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 slain	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	nsubj
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 children	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 children	nmod:poss
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 asked	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 were	punct
15	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	16 were	expl
16	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 asked	conj
17	so	so	ADV	_	18 many	advmod
18	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 were	nsubj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 miss	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 miss	nsubj
21	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 miss	aux
22	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 miss	advmod
23	at	at	ADP	_	24 first	case
24	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	25 miss	obl
25	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 many	advcl
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 two	det
27	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	25 miss	obj
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 eaten	nsubj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lindworm	det
30	lindworm	lindworm	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 eaten	nsubj:pass
31	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 eaten	aux
32	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 two	acl:relcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	slay in a quote	present · perfect		the lindworm			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lindworm=Patient
2	ask speech: ask	past	lindworm			of lindworm's children	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of child=Recipient clause=Topic
3	be	past	many		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	not miss	past · do-support	lindworm	the two			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer two=Stimulus
5	eat	past · perfect · passive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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