The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 35
‘Heaven alone knows in what part of the wide world they are wandering,’ replied her mother.
Who acts: Heaven, brothers · What happens: know, wonder, reply · To what, where: part, wide world, mother
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Twelve Brothers. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heaven, brothers), 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 | _ | 2 Heaven | punct |
| 2 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | nsubj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 knows | advmod |
| 4 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 part | case |
| 6 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 7 part | det |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knows | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 10 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 world | amod |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 part | nmod |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 wandering | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 wandering | aux |
| 14 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 world | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 16 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 knows | parataxis |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 mother | nmod:poss |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | Heaven | what part of the wide world | alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | present · progressive | brothers = brother | the wide world not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Heaven's mother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent mother=Topic |
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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