The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 148
‘What makes the child so restless?’ asked the Prince, and he went to a wise widow woman to ask her advice.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: make, ask, go · To what, where: child, advice
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Wonderful Birch. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 makes | nsubj |
| 3 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 child | det |
| 5 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 makes | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 restless | advmod |
| 7 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 makes | xcomp |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 9 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 makes | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Prince | det |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 went | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 went | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 went | nsubj |
| 16 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 woman | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 woman | det |
| 19 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 woman | amod |
| 20 | widow | widow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 woman | compound |
| 21 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 went | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 ask | mark |
| 23 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 went | advcl |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 advice | nmod:poss |
| 25 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ask | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | the child | restless property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material child=Product | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | past | Prince | to a wise widow woman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to woman=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | child's advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
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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