The Red Fairy Book, The Twelve Brothers, sentence 74
The girl asked, sobbing: ‘Is there no means of setting them free?’
Who acts: girl, no · What happens: ask, sob, be, set · To what, where: flowers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (girl, no), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 girl | det |
| 2 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | csubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sobbing | punct |
| 5 | sobbing | sob | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 asked | advcl |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 Is | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Is | punct |
| 8 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 means | cop |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 Is | expl |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 means | nsubj |
| 11 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 setting | mark |
| 13 | setting | set | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 means | ccomp |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 setting | obj |
| 15 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 setting | xcomp |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
| 17 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the girl | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | sob | gerund | the girl not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | present | no | mean property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | set | gerund | flowers = flower | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient they=Result |
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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