The Orange Fairy Book, Opening, part 33, sentence 40

'And is there no one else who can tell the poor boy where to find the bird, if he should ever manage to reach the tower?' asked the country swallow.

Who acts: one, ' · What happens: be, tell, find, manage, reach, ask · To what, where: one, poor boy, bird, tower, country swallow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Orange Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Opening, part 33. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, '), 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	'	'	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
2	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 is	cc
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 one	cop
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	nsubj
7	else	else	ADV	_	6 one	advmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 tell	nsubj
9	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 tell	aux
10	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 one	acl:relcl
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 boy	det
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 boy	amod
13	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tell	obj
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 find	advmod
15	to	to	PART	_	16 find	mark
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 boy	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 bird	det
18	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 find	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 manage	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 manage	mark
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 manage	nsubj
22	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 manage	aux
23	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	24 manage	advmod
24	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 tell	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 reach	mark
26	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 manage	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 tower	det
28	tower	tower	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 reach	obj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
30	'	'	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 swallow	det
33	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 swallow	compound
34	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 asked	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		no one			else property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	can	no one		the poor boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient
3	find	to-infinitive	no one not said here	the bird				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Topic
4	manage a condition, not said to happen	should	'			ever		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	reach	to-infinitive	' not said here	the tower				vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent tower=Theme
6	ask speech: ask	past	no one	the country swallow				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent swallow=Recipient

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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