The Red Fairy Book, The Golden Goose, sentence 50

Dullhead asked him what he was taking so much to heart, and the man answered: ‘I don’t know how I am ever to quench this terrible thirst I am suffering from.

Who acts: Dullhead, man, I · What happens: ask, take, answer, not know, quench, suffer · To what, where: man, terrible thirst · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Goose. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dullhead, man, I), 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	Dullhead	Dullhead	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	iobj
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 taking	obj
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 taking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 taking	aux
7	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 asked	ccomp
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 much	advmod
9	much	much	ADV	_	7 taking	advmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 heart	mark
11	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 much	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 answered	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 answered	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 answered	nsubj
16	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 asked	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
18	‘	'	PUNCT	_	22 know	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 know	nsubj
20	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 know	aux
21	n’t	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 know	advmod
22	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 answered	conj
23	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	28 quench	advmod
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 quench	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 quench	aux
26	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	28 quench	advmod
27	to	to	PART	_	28 quench	mark
28	quench	quench	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 know	ccomp
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	31 thirst	det
30	terrible	terrible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 thirst	amod
31	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 quench	obj
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 suffering	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 suffering	aux
34	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	31 thirst	acl:relcl
35	from	from	ADP	_	34 suffering	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Dullhead		man		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take	past · progressive	Dullhead				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme
3	answer speech: assert	past	the man				vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not know	present · do-support	I				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	quench	present	I	this terrible thirst		ever	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thirst=Experiencer
6	suffer	present · progressive	I	this terrible thirst not said here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thirst=Stimulus

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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