The Yellow Fairy Book, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3, sentence 4
How was he ever to appear before her with this tale?
Who acts: Prince · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Donkey Cabbage, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 appear | advmod |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 appear | cop |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 appear | nsubj |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 appear | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 appear | mark |
| 6 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 her | case |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 appear | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 tale | case |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 tale | det |
| 11 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 appear | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Prince | before Frog; ever | with this tale; appear property | 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 Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 640 (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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