The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38, sentence 13
“Do you wish your friend to be cured?” asked the new comer of the king’s son.
Who acts: you, new comer · What happens: wish, cure, ask · To what, where: friend · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 38. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, new comer), 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 | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 wish | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wish | nsubj |
| 4 | wish | wish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 asked | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wish | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 cured | mark |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cured | aux:pass |
| 9 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wish | advcl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wish | punct |
| 12 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 comer | det |
| 14 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 comer | amod |
| 15 | comer | comer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 asked | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 son | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 king | det |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 king | case |
| 20 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comer | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish in a quote | present · do-support | you | your friend | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot friend=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cure in a quote | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme» | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the new comer of the king's son | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/38/13/