The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 114
‘Shall I, then, receive nothing at all of my inheritance?’ asked the youth.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: receive, ask, inherit · To what, where: nothing, all, youth · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | _ | 7 receive | punct |
| 2 | Shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 receive | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 receive | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 I | punct |
| 5 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 receive | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 receive | punct |
| 7 | receive | receive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 asked | ccomp |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 receive | obj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 all | case |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 nothing | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 inheritance | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 inheritance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | inheritance | inheritance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 all | nmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 receive | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 receive | punct |
| 16 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 youth | det |
| 18 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 asked | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | shall | I | nothing | all | then | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme at all=Location | ||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the youth | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent youth=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | inherit | my | nom inheritance «act 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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