The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 69
“Is there no escape for him?” asked number two.
Who acts: escape · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: escape, number · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Trusty John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (escape), 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 | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 escape | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 escape | det |
| 5 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 escape | nmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 number | nummod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | no escape | for escape | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | no escape | number | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent number=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 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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