The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 74
Number three asked: “Is there no way of escape, then?”
Who acts: Number · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: way · 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 (Number), 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 | Number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Number | flat |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 way | punct |
| 6 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 way | cop |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 Is | expl |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 escape | case |
| 11 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 way | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 then | punct |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Number | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | no way | of escape | tree rules |
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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