The Blue Fairy Book, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was, sentence 30
At last she became anxious, and woke the youth, and asked: “Don’t you know where my husband is?
Who acts: wife, you, husband · What happens: become, wake, ask, not do, know, be · To what, where: last, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Tale of a Youth Who Set Out to Learn What Fear Was. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, you, husband), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | obl |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 woke | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 woke | cc |
| 8 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 youth | det |
| 10 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 woke | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 became | conj |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 Do | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Do | punct |
| 16 | Do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | xcomp |
| 17 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 Do | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 know | nsubj |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Do | parataxis |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 is | advmod |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 is | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 know | ccomp |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | wife | last | anxious property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | wake | past | wife not said here | the youth | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent youth=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | wife not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not do not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive | wife not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | be in a quote | present | my husband | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 503 (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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