The Blue Fairy Book, The Master-maid, part 1, sentence 19
If he boils gold here, what can he boil in there?”
Who acts: Prince · What happens: boil · To what, where: gold
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Master-maid, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 boils | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 boils | nsubj |
| 3 | boils | boil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 boil | advcl |
| 4 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 boils | obj |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 boils | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 boils | punct |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 boil | obj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 boil | aux |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 boil | nsubj |
| 10 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 there | case |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 boil | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 boil | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 boil | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | boil a condition, not said to happen | present | Prince | gold | here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gold=Patient | |||
| 2 | boil | can | Prince | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent what=Patient in there=Instrument |
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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