The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2, sentence 26
‘But how in the world,’ he added, ‘am I to collect all the wolves of the kingdom on to that hill over there?’
Who acts: Ferko, I · What happens: add, collect · To what, where: world, wolves
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ferko, I), 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 | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 added | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 added | advmod |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 world | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 world | det |
| 6 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 added | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 world | punct |
| 8 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 world | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 added | nsubj |
| 10 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 collect | punct |
| 12 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 16 collect | punct |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 collect | aux |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 collect | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 collect | mark |
| 16 | collect | collect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 added | advcl |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 wolves | det:predet |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wolves | det |
| 19 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 collect | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 kingdom | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 kingdom | det |
| 22 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wolves | nmod |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 wolves | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 hill | case |
| 25 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 hill | det |
| 26 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 collect | obl |
| 27 | over | over | ADV | _ | 28 there | advmod |
| 28 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 collect | advmod |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
| 30 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | past | Ferko | the world | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | collect | present | I | all wolves of the kingdom | there | to that hill | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient to hill=Co-Patient |
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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