The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 100
I know no way of rescuing Delicia from her clutches.’
Who acts: I, way, Princess · What happens: know, rescue, clutch · To what, where: way, Delicia, clutches
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Little Good Mouse. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, way, Princess), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 know | obj |
| 5 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 6 rescuing | mark |
| 6 | rescuing | rescue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 way | acl |
| 7 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 rescuing | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 clutches | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 clutches | nmod:poss |
| 10 | clutches | clutch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rescuing | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | no way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | rescue | gerund | no way not said here | Delicia | Princess's clutches | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent delicia=Theme from clutch=Source | |||
| 3 | clutch | Princess | nom clutch «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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