The Red Fairy Book, Kari Woodengown, part 2, sentence 82
‘But where is Kari Woodengown, then?’ asked the Prince, when all the others had tried on the shoe, for he understood the song of birds and it came to his mind what the bird had said.
Who acts: others, Prince, bird, birds · What happens: be, ask, try, understand, come, say · To what, where: Prince, shoe, song, mind, bird · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Kari Woodengown, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others, Prince, bird, birds), 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 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 where | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 asked | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 where | cop |
| 5 | Kari | Kari | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 where | appos |
| 6 | Woodengown | Woodengown | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Kari | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Kari | punct |
| 8 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 where | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 10 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 where | punct |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Prince | det |
| 13 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 tried | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 tried | advmod |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 others | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 others | det |
| 18 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 tried | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | aux |
| 20 | tried | try | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 asked | parataxis |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 shoe | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 shoe | det |
| 23 | shoe | shoe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tried | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 understood | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 understood | mark |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 understood | nsubj |
| 27 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 tried | parataxis |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 song | det |
| 29 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 understood | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 birds | case |
| 31 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 song | nmod |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 came | cc |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 came | nsubj |
| 34 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 understood | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 mind | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mind | nmod:poss |
| 37 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 came | obl |
| 38 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 42 said | obj |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 bird | det |
| 40 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 said | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 said | aux |
| 42 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 came | parataxis |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | then | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | try | past · perfect | all others | the shoe | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | understand | past | Prince | the song of birds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come | past | bird | Prince's mind | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mind=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the bird | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner | |||||
| 7 | sing | birds | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 8 | mind | Prince | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=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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