The Brown Fairy Book, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate, sentence 173
The letter says ‘at once,’ and ‘ask no questions.’
Who acts: letter · What happens: say, ask · To what, where: questions · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Story Of The King Who Would Be Stronger Than Fate. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 says | nsubj |
| 3 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 once | punct |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 3 says | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 once | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 once | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 ask | cc |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 ask | punct |
| 11 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 says | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 questions | det |
| 13 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 ask | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | the letter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | infinitive | the letter not said here | no questions | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=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 Brown Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3282 (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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