The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 67
The man called the fish together with his horn, but none of them knew anything about it.
Who acts: man · What happens: call, know · To what, where: fish, anything · 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 (man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 man | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fish | det |
| 5 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | xcomp |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 called | advmod |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 horn | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horn | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 knew | cc |
| 12 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 15 knew | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 them | case |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 none | nmod |
| 15 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 15 knew | obj |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 anything | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | the man not said here | the fish | with fish's horn; together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | know | past | the man | anything | about horn | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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