The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 63

‘Where else should I be going,’ he said, ‘than through the wood?’

Who acts: I, Prince · What happens: go, say · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, 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	‘	'	PUNCT	_	2 Where	punct
2	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	7 going	advmod
3	else	else	ADV	_	2 Where	advmod
4	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 going	aux
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 going	nsubj
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 going	aux
7	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
9	’	'	PUNCT	_	7 going	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
13	‘	'	PUNCT	_	17 wood	punct
14	than	than	ADP	_	17 wood	case
15	through	through	ADP	_	17 wood	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wood	det
17	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 said	ccomp
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 wood	punct
19	’	'	PUNCT	_	17 wood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	should · progressive	I						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Prince						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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