The Red Fairy Book, The Story of Sigurd, sentence 19

Then he asked the Queen, who was dressed like a maid, ‘How do you know in the dark of night whether the hours are wearing near the dawn?’

Who acts: King, you, hours · What happens: ask, dress, 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	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	_	9 dressed	punct
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 dressed	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dressed	aux:pass
9	dressed	dress	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 Queen	acl
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 maid	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 maid	det
12	maid	maid	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dressed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
14	‘	'	PUNCT	_	18 know	punct
15	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	18 know	advmod
16	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 know	aux
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	18 know	nsubj
18	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 asked	conj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 dark	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 dark	det
21	dark	dark	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 know	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	23 night	case
23	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 dark	nmod
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	28 wearing	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hours	det
26	hours	hour	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 wearing	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 wearing	aux
28	wearing	wear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 know	advcl
29	near	near	ADP	_	31 dawn	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 dawn	det
31	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 wearing	obl
32	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 asked	punct
33	’	'	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		then		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent queen=Recipient
2	dress	past · passive		the Queen				like a maid	vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	know	present · do-support	you			the dark of night			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	wear	present · progressive	the hours				dawn		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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