The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 126
‘She cannot tell you that, my child,’ replied the goddess, ‘but, if you will travel towards the East until you reach the dwelling of the Sun, he may be able to tell you something.’
Who acts: Princess, you, husband · What happens: not tell, reply, travel, reach, be, tell · To what, where: that, you, goddess, dwelling, something · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Enchanted Pig. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, you, husband), 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 | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 tell | advmod |
| 5 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 tell | iobj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tell | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 child | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 child | nmod:poss |
| 10 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tell | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 tell | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 goddess | det |
| 15 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 able | punct |
| 17 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 39 able | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 able | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 but | punct |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 travel | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 travel | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 travel | aux |
| 23 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | advcl |
| 24 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 26 East | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 East | det |
| 26 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 travel | obl |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 reach | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 reach | nsubj |
| 29 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 travel | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 dwelling | det |
| 31 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reach | obj |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Sun | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 Sun | det |
| 34 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dwelling | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 travel | punct |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 able | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 able | aux |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | cop |
| 39 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 replied | advcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 tell | mark |
| 41 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 able | xcomp |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 41 tell | iobj |
| 43 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 41 tell | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
| 45 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | can | Princess | that | you | my child obl | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient that=Topic | ||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the goddess | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent goddess=Topic | |||||
| 3 | travel a condition, not said to happen | future | you | towards the East | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards east=Destination | ||||
| 4 | reach | present | you | the dwelling of the Sun | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent dwelling=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | may | husband | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | husband not said here | something | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=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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