The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5, sentence 43
But ask your council to advise you what to do when you arrive—in one word, whether you will win the princess peacefully or by war?”
Who acts: you, council · What happens: ask, advise, do, arrive, win · To what, where: council, one word, you, princess
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, council), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 2 ask | cc |
| 2 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 council | nmod:poss |
| 4 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 advise | mark |
| 6 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 advise | obj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 do | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 do | mark |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 advise | xcomp |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 arrive | advmod |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 arrive | nsubj |
| 13 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | advcl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 word | punct |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 word | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 word | nummod |
| 17 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ask | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 win | punct |
| 19 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 22 win | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 win | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 win | aux |
| 22 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 ask | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 princess | det |
| 24 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 win | obj |
| 25 | peacefully | peacefully | ADV | _ | 22 win | advmod |
| 26 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 war | cc |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 war | case |
| 28 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 peacefully | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | your council | one word | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent council=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | advise speech: other not said to happen | to-infinitive | your council not said here | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | arrive | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | win | future | you | the princess | peacefully property | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent princess=Eventuality |
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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