The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 1, sentence 25
At last, not knowing what else to do, she resolved to consult a certain witch who was called “The Fairy of the Desert.”
Who acts: queen · What happens: not know, do, resolve, consult, call · To what, where: certain witch · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, 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 (queen), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 knowing | punct |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 knowing | advmod |
| 5 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 last | advcl |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 do | obj |
| 7 | else | else | ADV | _ | 6 what | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 knowing | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 resolved | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 resolved | nsubj |
| 12 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 last | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 consult | mark |
| 14 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 resolved | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 witch | det |
| 16 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 witch | amod |
| 17 | witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 consult | obj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 called | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 called | aux:pass |
| 20 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 witch | acl:relcl |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 Fairy | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Fairy | det |
| 23 | Fairy | Fairy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 called | xcomp |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 Desert | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Desert | det |
| 26 | Desert | Desert | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Fairy | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | resolve | past | queen | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | consult | to-infinitive | queen not said here | a certain witch | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent witch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | call | past · passive | a certain witch | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=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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