The Red Fairy Book, The Three Dwarfs, part 2, sentence 30

Then Dapplegrim inquired why he was so troubled, and the youth told him, and said that he did not know what to do, ‘for as to setting the Princess free, that was downright impossible.’

Who acts: Dapplegrim, youth, that · What happens: inquire, be, tell, say, not know, do · To what, where: Dapplegrim, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Three Dwarfs, 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 (Dapplegrim, youth, that), 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 inquired	advmod
2	Dapplegrim	Dapplegrim	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 inquired	nsubj
3	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 troubled	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 troubled	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 troubled	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 troubled	advmod
8	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 inquired	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 told	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 told	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 youth	det
12	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 told	nsubj
13	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 told	iobj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 inquired	conj
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 know	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
23	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 do	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 do	mark
25	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ‘	punct
27	‘	‘	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	conj
28	for	for	SCONJ	_	31 setting	mark
29	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	31 setting	cc
30	to	to	ADP	_	29 as	fixed
31	setting	set	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 ‘	advcl
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Princess	det
33	Princess	Princess	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 setting	obj
34	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 setting	xcomp
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 impossible	punct
36	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 impossible	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 impossible	cop
38	downright	downright	ADV	_	39 impossible	advmod
39	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 said	ccomp
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 impossible	punct
41	’	'	PUNCT	_	39 impossible	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	inquire speech: other	past	Dapplegrim			then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	Dapplegrim				troubled property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past	the youth		Dapplegrim			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	say speech: assert	past	Dapplegrim not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not know	past · do-support	youth					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6	do	to-infinitive						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
7	‘	infinitive	youth not said here					tree rules
8	set	gerund	youth not said here	the Princess			free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient princess=Result
9	is	past	that				downright, impossible 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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