The Red Fairy Book, Princess Rosette, sentence 74
He asked the most distinguished-looking cockchafer they met if he knew where they could find the King of the Peacocks.
Who acts: answer, Cockchafers · What happens: ask, look, meet, know, find · To what, where: looking cockchafer, King · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Princess Rosette. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (answer, Cockchafers), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cockchafer | det |
| 4 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 5 distinguished | advmod |
| 5 | distinguished | distinguished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 looking | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 distinguished | punct |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 cockchafer | amod |
| 8 | cockchafer | cockchafer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 cockchafer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 knew | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | advcl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 find | advmod |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 find | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | aux |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 knew | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 King | det |
| 19 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 find | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Peacocks | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Peacocks | det |
| 22 | Peacocks | Peacock | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 King | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | answer | the looking cockchafer | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent cockchafer=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | meet | past | Cockchafers = cockchafer | the looking cockchafer not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cockchafer=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | answer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | find | could | Cockchafers = cockchafer | the King of the Peacocks | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Topic |
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 Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (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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