The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 15
So he asked the Queen, ‘How do you know in the dark of night whether the hours are wearing to the morning?’
Who acts: King, you, hours · What happens: ask, know, wear · To what, where: Queen, dark
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Story of Sigurd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, you, hours), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Queen | det |
| 5 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 8 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 know | advmod |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 dark | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 dark | det |
| 14 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 night | case |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 dark | nmod |
| 17 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 21 wearing | mark |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hours | det |
| 19 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 wearing | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wearing | aux |
| 21 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 know | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 morning | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 morning | det |
| 24 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wearing | obl |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | King | the Queen | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | know | present · do-support | you | the dark of night | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | wear | present · progressive | the hours | morning | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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