The Red Fairy Book, The Wonderful Birch, sentence 150
‘Is there any way of getting my own wife back from the wood again?’ asked the Prince.
Who acts: way · What happens: be, get, ask · To what, where: way, own wife, wood, Prince · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (way), 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 way | punct |
| 2 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 way | cop |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 Is | expl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 getting | mark |
| 7 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 way | acl |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wife | nmod:poss |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 wife | amod |
| 10 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | obj |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 7 getting | advmod |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 wood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wood | det |
| 14 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 getting | obl |
| 15 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 getting | advmod |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 5 way | punct |
| 18 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Prince | det |
| 20 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 asked | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | any way | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | gerund | any way not said here | my own wife | the wood | again | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent wife=Theme from wood=Source | ||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=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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