The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 64
He is Lord of all the fish in the sea—you can ask him.
Who acts: brother, you · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: Lord, brother
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 (brother, you), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Lord | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 Lord | cop |
| 3 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 fish | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 fish | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Lord | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 sea | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sea | det |
| 10 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 fish | nmod |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | aux |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 Lord | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Lord | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | brother | Lord | of all fish in the sea | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | can | you | brother | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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