The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 51
This question placed Iwanich in a dilemma.
Who acts: question · What happens: place · To what, where: Iwanich, dilemma
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (question), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 question | det |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | nsubj |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 dilemma | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 dilemma | det |
| 7 | dilemma | dilemma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 placed | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 placed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | past | this question | Iwanich | a dilemma | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent iwanich=Theme in dilemma=Destination |
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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