The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 14
Well, on the third day the youngest son undertook the task.
Who acts: youngest son · What happens: undertake · To what, where: task
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Norka. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youngest son), 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 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 10 undertook | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Well | punct |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 day | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 day | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 day | amod |
| 6 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undertook | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 son | det |
| 8 | youngest | young | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undertook | nsubj |
| 10 | undertook | undertake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 task | det |
| 12 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 undertook | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 undertook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | past | the youngest son | the task | day | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent task=Eventuality |
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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