The Blue Fairy Book, Trusty John, sentence 86
Who knows for what good end he may have done this thing?”
Who acts: John · What happens: know, do · To what, where: thing
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 (John), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 end | nsubj |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | amod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knows | obl |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 8 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 end | acl:relcl |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 thing | det |
| 12 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 done | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 done | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | for good end | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | do | may · perfect | John | this thing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
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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