The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 1, sentence 85
‘What does the King, I pray you tell, Is he awake or sleeps he well?’
Who acts: I, you, King · What happens: do, pray, tell, be, sleep · To what, where: King · 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, you, King), 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 does | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 does | nsubj |
| 3 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 King | det |
| 5 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 does | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pray | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 pray | nsubj |
| 8 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 does | conj |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | nsubj |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 pray | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 awake | punct |
| 12 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 awake | cop |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 awake | nsubj |
| 14 | awake | awake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 does | advcl |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 sleeps | cc |
| 16 | sleeps | sleep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 awake | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 sleeps | obj |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 sleeps | advmod |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 does | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | the King | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pray | present | I | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | present | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | present | King | awake property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sleep | present | King not said here | King | well property | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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