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The Red Fairy Book, The Enchanted Pig, sentence 144

She then told the Princess that she had asked about her husband, but that her son had replied that he knew nothing about him, and that her only hope was to go and inquire of the Wind.

Who acts: heat, Sun, only hope · What happens: tell, ask, reply, know, be, inquire · To what, where: Princess, son, nothing · 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 (heat, Sun, only hope), 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

nsubjadvmoddetobjmarknsubjauxccompcasenmod:possoblpunctccmarknmod:possnsubj:passauxparataxismarknsubjadvclobjcasenmodpunctccmarknmod:possamodnsubj:outercopmarkccompccconjcasedetoblpunctrootShePRONthenADVtoldVERBtheDETPrincessNOUNthatSCONJshePRONhadAUXaskedVERBaboutADPherPRONhusbandNOUN,PUNCTbutCCONJthatSCONJherPRONsonNOUNhadAUXrepliedVERBthatSCONJhePRONknewVERBnothingPRONaboutADPhimPRON,PUNCTandCCONJthatSCONJherPRONonlyADJhopeNOUNwasAUXtoPARTgoVERBandCCONJinquireVERBofADPtheDETWindPROPN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 toldnsubj
2thenthenADVPronType=Dem3 toldadvmod
3toldtellVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Princessdet
5PrincessprincessNOUNNumber=Sing3 toldobj
6thatthatSCONJ_9 askedmark
7sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 askednsubj
8hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 askedaux
9askedaskVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part3 toldccomp
10aboutaboutADP_12 husbandcase
11herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs12 husbandnmod:poss
12husbandhusbandNOUNNumber=Sing9 askedobl
13,,PUNCT_19 repliedpunct
14butbutCCONJ_19 repliedcc
15thatthatSCONJ_19 repliedmark
16herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs17 sonnmod:poss
17sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing19 repliednsubj:pass
18hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 repliedaux
19repliedreplyVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass9 askedparataxis
20thatthatSCONJ_22 knewmark
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 knewnsubj
22knewknowVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin19 repliedadvcl
23nothingnothingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Neg22 knewobj
24aboutaboutADP_25 himcase
25himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs23 nothingnmod
26,,PUNCT_34 gopunct
27andandCCONJ_34 gocc
28thatthatSCONJ_34 gomark
29herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 hopenmod:poss
30onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos31 hopeamod
31hopehopeNOUNNumber=Sing34 gonsubj:outer
32wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 gocop
33totoPART_34 gomark
34gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf3 toldccomp
35andandCCONJ_36 inquirecc
36inquireinquireVERBVerbForm=Inf34 goconj
37ofofADP_39 Windcase
38thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art39 Winddet
39WindWindPROPNNumber=Sing36 inquireobl
40..PUNCT_3 toldpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1tell speech: assertpastheatthe Princessthenvn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient clause=Topic
2ask speech: askpast · perfectheatabout heat's husbandvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.topic whether S»: agent=Agent about husband=Topic
3reply speech: assertpast · perfect · passiveheat's sonvn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic
4knowpastSunnothingabout husbandvn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus
5is not said to happenpastheat's only hopego propertytree rules
6inquire speech: otherinfinitiveheat's only hope not said hereof the Windvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of wind=Recipient
7hopeheatnom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

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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