The Red Fairy Book, Mother Holle, part 3, sentence 28
Then the Princess asked if he had got hold of anyone who could brew a hundred lasts of malt at one brewing.
Who acts: Princess, Troll, hundred · What happens: ask, get, brew, last, hold · To what, where: hold, anyone
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Mother Holle, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Princess, Troll, hundred), 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 | 4 asked | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Princess | det |
| 3 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 asked | nsubj |
| 4 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 got | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 got | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 got | aux |
| 8 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 got | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 anyone | case |
| 11 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 hold | nmod |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 brew | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 brew | aux |
| 14 | brew | brew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 hundred | det |
| 16 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 lasts | nsubj |
| 17 | lasts | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 brew | ccomp |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 malt | case |
| 19 | malt | malt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lasts | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 brewing | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 brewing | nummod |
| 22 | brewing | brewing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 malt | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | get a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Troll | hold of anyone | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | brew | could | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | last | present | a hundred | of malt at one brewing | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | anyone | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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