The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 3, sentence 39
Who knows where she may be, and what fairy may have her in his keeping?
Who acts: Princess, fairy, most · What happens: know, be, have, keep · To what, where: Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), 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 (Princess, fairy, most), 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 be | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 be | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 be | aux |
| 6 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 have | obj |
| 10 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | nsubj |
| 11 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 have | aux |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knows | ccomp |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 have | obj |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 keeping | mark |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 keeping | nsubj |
| 16 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 have | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | be | may | Princess | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | may | fairy | Princess | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | gerund | most | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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