The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 94
On the way to the field he took out his bones and asked them what he was to do to escape from the ogre.
Who acts: Motikatika · What happens: take out, ask, be, escape · To what, where: bones, way, ogre
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 (Motikatika), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 way | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 way | det |
| 3 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 took | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 field | det |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 way | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 took | nsubj |
| 8 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 took | compound:prt |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 bones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 took | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 took | conj |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | obj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 do | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 do | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 do | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 escape | mark |
| 21 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 do | advcl |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 ogre | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 ogre | det |
| 24 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 escape | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take out | past | Motikatika | Motikatika's bones | the way to the field | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Motikatika not said here | bones = bone | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | past | Motikatika | do property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | escape | to-infinitive | Motikatika not said here | the ogre | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from ogre=Initial_Location |
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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