The Red Fairy Book, Soria Moria Castle, sentence 143

‘Canst thou tell me the way to Soria Moria Castle?’

Who acts: thou · What happens: tell · To what, where: way, me · 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 (thou), 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	Canst	can	AUX	Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
3	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Castle	case
9	Soria	Soria	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Castle	compound
10	Moria	Moria	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 Castle	compound
11	Castle	Castle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 way	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
13	’	'	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	can	thou	the way	me			to Soria Moria Castle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic

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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