The Red Fairy Book, The Voice of Death, sentence 6
At last he reached a country where he was told that the people did not even know the meaning of the word death.
Who acts: man, people · What happens: reach, tell, not know, mean · To what, where: country, last, man, meaning, word death · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Voice of Death. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, people), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 reached | nsubj |
| 4 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 country | det |
| 6 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 reached | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 told | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 told | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | aux:pass |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 country | acl:relcl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 know | mark |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 people | det |
| 13 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 know | nsubj |
| 14 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 16 | even | even | ADV | _ | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 told | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 meaning | det |
| 19 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 death | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 death | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 death | compound |
| 23 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 meaning | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | man | a country | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent country=Theme at last=Asset | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | man | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | the people | the meaning of the word death | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer meaning=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | mean | the word death | nom meaning «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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