The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 123
We can ask at the inn here, and find out which way we ought to take.”
Who acts: We · What happens: ask, find out, take · To what, where: inn, way
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 inn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 inn | det |
| 6 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ask | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 find | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 find | cc |
| 10 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 find | compound:prt |
| 12 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 find | obj |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 take | nsubj |
| 15 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 take | aux |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 way | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | can | We | the inn; here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | find out | infinitive | We not said here | which way | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | ought | we | which way not said here | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: 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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