The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37, sentence 6
How To Find Out A True Friend
What happens: find out · To what, where: True Friend
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 37. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 Find | advmod |
| 2 | To | to | PART | _ | 3 Find | mark |
| 3 | Find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Out | out | ADP | _ | 3 Find | compound:prt |
| 5 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Friend | det |
| 6 | True | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Friend | amod |
| 7 | Friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Find | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find out | to-infinitive | a True Friend | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=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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