The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 19
‘How much wool will it take to the pack?’ says the Queen.
Who acts: much wool, Queen · What happens: take, say · To what, where: barrel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (much wool, Queen), 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 | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 much | advmod |
| 3 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wool | amod |
| 4 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 take | aux |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 take | expl |
| 7 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 says | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 pack | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pack | det |
| 10 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 take | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 take | punct |
| 13 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Queen | det |
| 15 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 says | nsubj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | much wool | barrel | to the pack result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to pack=Result | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the Queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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