The Red Fairy Book, The Giant Breaks His Neck., sentence 11
Jack asked the Fairy if she would show him the way to the castle, as the Beanstalk was now down.
Who acts: Jack, Fairy, Beanstalk · What happens: ask, show, be · To what, where: Fairy, way, Jack
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Giant Breaks His Neck.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, Fairy, Beanstalk), 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 | Jack | Jack | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fairy | det |
| 4 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 show | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 show | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | aux |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | advcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 show | iobj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 way | det |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 show | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 way | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 down | punct |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 down | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Beanstalk | det |
| 18 | Beanstalk | Beanstalk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 down | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 down | cop |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 down | advmod |
| 21 | down | down | ADV | _ | 2 asked | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Jack | the Fairy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | show a condition, not said to happen | would | Fairy | the way | Jack | to the castle | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic | ||
| 3 | is | past | the Beanstalk | now | down property | tree rules |
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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