The Red Fairy Book, The Black Thief and Knight of the Glen., sentence 48
‘And now,’ said he, ‘we are travelling, and do not know whether we are on the right road or not.’
Who acts: youngest, we · What happens: say, travel, not know, be · To what, where: right road · 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 (youngest, we), 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 | ‘ | ‘ | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 said | cc |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 now | punct |
| 5 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 ‘ | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 travelling | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 travelling | punct |
| 9 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 travelling | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 travelling | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 travelling | aux |
| 12 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 know | cc |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 know | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 know | advmod |
| 17 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 12 travelling | parataxis |
| 18 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 24 road | mark |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 road | nsubj |
| 20 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 road | cop |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 road | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 road | det |
| 23 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 road | amod |
| 24 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 know | ccomp |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 not | cc |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 road | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 know | punct |
| 28 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 travelling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | travel | present · progressive | youngest = young | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | not know | infinitive · do-support | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 4 | is | present | we | the right road | tree rules |
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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