The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 83

Then he asked what it meant, and the old woman told him it was nothing but weakness, and that she would soon be all right again.

Who acts: King, toad, old woman, woman · What happens: ask, mean, tell, be · To what, where: King, nothing · 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 (King, toad, old woman, woman), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	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	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 asked	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 meant	nsubj
6	meant	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 what	acl:relcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 told	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 told	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 woman	det
10	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 woman	amod
11	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 told	nsubj
12	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asked	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 told	iobj
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 nothing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 nothing	cop
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 told	ccomp
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 weakness	cc
18	weakness	weakness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 nothing	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 right	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 right	cc
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 right	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 right	nsubj
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 right	aux
24	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 right	advmod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 right	cop
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 right	advmod
27	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 asked	parataxis
28	again	again	ADV	_	27 right	advmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	King			then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient
2	mean	past	toad					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
3	tell speech: assert	past	the old woman		King			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	is a	past	toad	nothing				tree rules
5	is	would	woman			again	all, right, soon property	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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