The Red Fairy Book, The Norka, sentence 38
‘Who is going into the other world, to overcome the Norka?’
What happens: go, overcome · To what, where: other world, Norka
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: 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 world | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 world | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 world | amod |
| 8 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 overcome | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 overcome | mark |
| 11 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Norka | det |
| 13 | Norka | Norka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 overcome | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | present · progressive | the other world | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into world=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | overcome | to-infinitive | the Norka | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot norka=Theme |
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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