The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 32, sentence 70

'How am I to fetch the ring from the bottom of this river when I do not know exactly where it was dropped, and cannot even see it?' asked Jose.

Who acts: I · What happens: fetch, not know, drop, not see, ask · To what, where: ring, bottom, river, Jose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 32. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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	_	6 fetch	punct
2	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fetch	advmod
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fetch	aux
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 fetch	nsubj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 fetch	mark
6	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 asked	ccomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ring	det
8	ring	ring	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 bottom	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bottom	det
11	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fetch	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 river	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bottom	nmod
15	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	19 know	advmod
16	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 know	nsubj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 know	aux
18	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 know	advmod
19	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fetch	advcl
20	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	24 dropped	advmod
21	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 dropped	advmod
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 dropped	nsubj:pass
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 dropped	aux:pass
24	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 know	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 see	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 see	cc
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 see	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 see	advmod
29	even	even	ADV	_	30 see	advmod
30	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 fetch	conj
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 see	obj
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 fetch	punct
33	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 fetch	punct
34	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
35	Jose	Jose	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 asked	iobj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	34 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fetch not said to happen	present	I	the ring		the bottom of this river		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent ring=Theme from bottom=Source
2	not know	present · do-support	I					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	drop	past · passive		river			exactly property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	not see	can	I not said here	river				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
5	ask speech: ask	past			Jose			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent jose=Recipient 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 Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3027 (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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