The Red Fairy Book, The Little Good Mouse, sentence 81
How shall I know now whether my Delicia is being taken care of or no?
Who acts: I · What happens: know, take · To what, where: Delicia · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 know | advmod |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 know | advmod |
| 6 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 11 taken | mark |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Delicia | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Delicia | Delicia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 taken | aux:pass |
| 11 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 know | ccomp |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taken | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 taken | obl |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 no | cc |
| 15 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 taken | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | shall | I | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | take | present · passive | my Delicia | 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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