The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 1, sentence 92
‘All I ask,’ replied Iwanich, ‘is, that I should be allowed to go through this wood in safety.’
Who acts: All, Iwanich, ‘ · What happens: ask, reply, be, go · To what, where: Iwanich, ‘, wood
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 (All, Iwanich, ‘), 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 | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 replied | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 allowed | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ‘ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 allowed | cop |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 allowed | punct |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 allowed | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 allowed | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 allowed | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 allowed | aux:pass |
| 17 | allowed | allow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Iwanich | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 go | mark |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 allowed | xcomp |
| 20 | through | through | ADP | _ | 22 wood | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 wood | det |
| 22 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 safety | case |
| 24 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 Iwanich | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | All | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Iwanich | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent iwanich=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is | should · present · passive | Iwanich not said here | ‘ | allow property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | ‘ not said here | this wood | in safety | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through wood=Initial_Location |
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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