The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 58

And now he once more asked after Whiteland, and the man summoned all the birds together, and inquired if any of them knew where Whiteland lay.

Who acts: Lord, man, any, Whiteland · What happens: ask, summon, inquire, know, lie · To what, where: birds · 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 (Lord, man, any, Whiteland), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	6 asked	cc
2	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 asked	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 asked	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 asked	advmod
5	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 asked	advmod
6	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	after	after	ADP	_	8 Whiteland	case
8	Whiteland	Whiteland	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 asked	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 summoned	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 summoned	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 summoned	nsubj
13	summoned	summon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 asked	conj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 birds	det:predet
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 birds	det
16	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 summoned	obj
17	together	together	ADV	_	13 summoned	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 inquired	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 inquired	cc
20	inquired	inquire	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 asked	parataxis
21	if	if	SCONJ	_	25 knew	mark
22	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 knew	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 any	nmod
25	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 inquired	advcl
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	28 lay	advmod
27	Whiteland	Whiteland	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 lay	nsubj
28	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 knew	ccomp
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Lord		after Whiteland; now	once property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	summon	past	the man	all birds		together property	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
3	inquire speech: other	participle					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	know a condition, not said to happen	past	any				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	lie	past	Whiteland				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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