The Blue Fairy Book, The Red Etin, sentence 51
(Repeat the same inquiries to the man attending the swine and the man attending the goats, with the same answer in each case.)
Who acts: you, man · What happens: repeat, attend · To what, where: same inquiries, man, swine, goats
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: who acts (you, man), 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 | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 2 | Repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 inquiries | det |
| 4 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 inquiries | amod |
| 5 | inquiries | inquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Repeat | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Repeat | obl |
| 9 | attending | attend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Repeat | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 swine | det |
| 11 | swine | swine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 attending | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 man | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swine | conj |
| 15 | attending | attend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 goats | det |
| 17 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 attending | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 answer | punct |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 answer | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 answer | det |
| 21 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 answer | amod |
| 22 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Repeat | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 case | case |
| 24 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 case | det |
| 25 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 answer | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
| 27 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 2 Repeat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | repeat | imperative | you not said here | the same inquiries | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent inquiry=Topic to man=Recipient | |||
| 2 | attend | gerund | you not said here | the swine and the man | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme swine=Goal | ||||
| 3 | attend | gerund | the man not said here | the goats | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme goat=Goal |
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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