The Blue Fairy Book, East of the Sun and West of the Moon, sentence 76

Of this woman, too, she inquired if she knew the way to the Prince, and where to find the castle which lay east of the sun and west of the moon.

Who acts: woman, castle · What happens: inquire, know, find, lie · To what, where: way, castle, sun

This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, East of the Sun and West of the Moon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman, castle), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	3 woman	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 woman	det
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 inquired	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
5	too	too	ADV	_	3 woman	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 inquired	nsubj
8	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 knew	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knew	nsubj
11	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 inquired	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 knew	obj
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 Prince	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Prince	det
16	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 way	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 find	cc
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	21 find	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 inquired	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 castle	det
23	castle	castle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 find	obj
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	25 lay	nsubj
25	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 castle	acl:relcl
26	east	east	ADV	_	29 sun	advmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 sun	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 sun	det
29	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 lay	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 moon	cc
31	west	west	ADV	_	34 moon	advmod
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 moon	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 moon	det
34	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 sun	conj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	woman		of this woman	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of woman=Recipient
2	know a condition, not said to happen	past	woman	the way	to the Prince	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus
3	find	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the castle		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent castle=Topic
4	lie	past	the castle	the sun and the moon		vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sun=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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