The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 137
So Halvor told her that he wanted to get to Soria Moria Castle, and inquired if she knew the way thither.
Who acts: Halvor, hag · What happens: tell, want, get, inquire, know · To what, where: hag, Soria Moria Castle, way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Soria Moria Castle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Halvor, hag), 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 told | advmod |
| 2 | Halvor | Halvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 wanted | mark |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 wanted | xcomp |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Castle | case |
| 11 | Soria | Soria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Castle | compound |
| 12 | Moria | Moria | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Castle | compound |
| 13 | Castle | Castle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inquired | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 inquired | cc |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | conj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 inquired | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 way | det |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knew | obj |
| 22 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 19 knew | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Halvor | hag | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | want | past | Halvor | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | Halvor not said here | Soria Moria Castle | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to castle=Result | ||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | past | Halvor not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | hag | the way | thither property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=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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