The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 50
“But how does he manage to get pears in midwinter?” asked the king.
Who acts: Piro, king · What happens: manage, get, ask · To what, where: pears, midwinter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Piro, king), 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 | _ | 6 manage | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 manage | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 manage | advmod |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 manage | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 manage | nsubj |
| 6 | manage | manage | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 manage | xcomp |
| 9 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 midwinter | case |
| 11 | midwinter | midwinter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 manage | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 manage | punct |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 king | det |
| 16 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | manage in a quote | present · do-support | Piro | vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | Piro not said here | pears | midwinter | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pear=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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