The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 31
The second was: Whether man was made for woman, or woman for man?
What happens: be, make · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Red Etin. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 second | det |
| 2 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 made | advcl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 second | cop |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
| 5 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 8 made | mark |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 made | aux:pass |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 woman | case |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 woman | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 woman | cc |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 woman | appos |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 man | case |
| 15 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woman | nmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | second property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | past · passive | man | for woman | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for woman=Beneficiary |
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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