The Red Fairy Book, The Princess Mayblossom, part 2, sentence 50
Perhaps this may give some clue to the mystery of their disappearance.’
Who acts: this, tricks · What happens: give, disappear · To what, where: clue, mystery
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Princess Mayblossom, 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 (this, tricks), 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 | Perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 4 give | advmod |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 clue | det |
| 6 | clue | clue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 mystery | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 mystery | det |
| 9 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 disappearance | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 disappearance | nmod:poss |
| 12 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mystery | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | may | this | some clue | the mystery of tricks's disappearance | perhaps property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent clue=Theme to mystery=Recipient | ||
| 2 | disappear | tricks = trick | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: 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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