The Blue Fairy Book, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3, sentence 23
The King of the Gold Mines hardly knew what answer to make to this proposal.
Who acts: King · What happens: know, make · To what, where: answer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Blue Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Yellow Dwarf, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Mines | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Mines | det |
| 5 | Gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Mines | compound |
| 6 | Mines | Mines | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 King | nmod |
| 7 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 8 knew | advmod |
| 8 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 answer | det |
| 10 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 knew | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 knew | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 proposal | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 proposal | det |
| 15 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the King of the Gold Mines | what answer | hardly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | to this proposal | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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