The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 53
Then he blew his horn and inquired whether any of them knew where Whiteland lay, but there was not one who knew that.
Who acts: Whiteland, any · What happens: blow, inquire, know, lie, not be · To what, where: horn, one, that · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Princesses of Whiteland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Whiteland, any), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 blew | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horn | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 inquired | cc |
| 7 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 8 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 12 knew | mark |
| 9 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 knew | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 any | nmod |
| 12 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 inquired | advcl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 lay | advmod |
| 14 | Whiteland | Whiteland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 knew | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 knew | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 knew | cc |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 one | expl |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 one | advmod |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 knew | advcl |
| 22 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 knew | nsubj |
| 23 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 knew | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | Whiteland | Whiteland's horn | then | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | Whiteland not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | know | past | any | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | lie | past | Whiteland | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not is a | past | one | there | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | know | past | that | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer that=Stimulus |
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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