The Red Fairy Book, The Three Princesses of Whiteland, sentence 69
When he asked the pike, it said, ‘Yes, Whiteland is well known to me, for I have been cook there these ten years.
Who acts: pike, difficulty, I · What happens: ask, say, know, be · To what, where: pike, Whiteland, me · 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 (pike, difficulty, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pike | det |
| 5 | pike | pike | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 known | punct |
| 11 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 16 known | discourse |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Yes | punct |
| 13 | Whiteland | Whiteland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 known | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 known | aux:pass |
| 15 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 known | advmod |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 me | case |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 known | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cook | punct |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 cook | case |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 cook | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 cook | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 cook | cop |
| 24 | cook | cook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 cook | advmod |
| 26 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 28 years | det |
| 27 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 years | nummod |
| 28 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 known | obl:unmarked |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | pike | the pike | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent pike=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | difficulty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know | present · passive | Whiteland | me | year | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Stimulus | ||
| 4 | is | present · perfect | I | there | for cook | 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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