The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 114

‘Do you want to know the way to Kerglas?’ asked the idiot, and the man answered ‘I know it well.’

Who acts: you, man, I · What happens: want, know, ask, answer · To what, where: way, idiot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, man, 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	_	4 want	punct
2	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 want	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 want	nsubj
4	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 asked	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 know	mark
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 want	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 way	det
8	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	obj
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 Kerglas	case
10	Kerglas	Kerglas	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 way	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
12	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 want	punct
13	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 idiot	det
15	idiot	idiot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 asked	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 answered	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 answered	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 answered	nsubj
20	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 asked	parataxis
21	‘	'	PUNCT	_	23 know	punct
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 know	nsubj
23	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 answered	conj
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 know	obj
25	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 know	advmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct
27	’	'	PUNCT	_	13 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	want	present · do-support	you			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	know not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	the way	to Kerglas	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
3	ask speech: ask	past		the idiot		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent idiot=Recipient clause=Topic
4	answer speech: assert	past	the man			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	know	present	I	way	well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (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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