The Yellow Fairy Book, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4, sentence 63
Never can I discover the place where this monster will hide Rosalie.’
Who acts: I, monster · What happens: not discover, hide · To what, where: place, Rosalie
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Beasts(11), part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, monster), 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 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 discover | advmod |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 discover | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 discover | nsubj |
| 4 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discover | obj |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 hide | advmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 monster | det |
| 9 | monster | monster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hide | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hide | aux |
| 11 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | acl:relcl |
| 12 | Rosalie | Rosalie | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 hide | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 discover | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 discover | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not discover | can | I | the place | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hide | future | this monster | Rosalie | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rosalie=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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