The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 4

He stopped some of them and asked in all the twenty-seven languages he knew what was the name of the city, but no one answered him.

Who acts: He, one · What happens: stop, ask, know, be, answer · To what, where: some, seven languages, name, him

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stopped	nsubj
2	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 stopped	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 some	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 asked	cc
7	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	14 languages	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 languages	det:predet
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 languages	det
11	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 seven	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 twenty	punct
13	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 languages	nummod
14	languages	language	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 asked	obl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 knew	nsubj
16	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 languages	acl:relcl
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 name	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 name	cop
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 name	det
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 knew	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 city	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 city	det
23	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 name	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 answered	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 answered	cc
26	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	27 one	det
27	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 answered	nsubj
28	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stopped	parataxis
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 answered	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 stopped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	stop	past	He	some				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector some=Eventuality
2	ask speech: ask	past	He not said here			all seven languages		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	know	past	he	all seven languages not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus
4	is a	past		the name			of the city	tree rules
5	answer speech: assert	past	no one		him = he			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Eventuality

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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