The Yellow Fairy Book, The Witch and Her Servants(22), part 3, sentence 20
‘I wish to know,’ replied Iwanich, ‘where the King’s hen-house is.’
Who acts: I, Iwanich · What happens: wish, know, reply
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Witch and Her Servants(22), 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 (I, 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 | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 wish | nsubj |
| 3 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 know | mark |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wish | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 7 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 wish | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Iwanich | Iwanich | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 is | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 King | det |
| 14 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 King | case |
| 16 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | compound |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 hen | punct |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 ’ | cop |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 is | punct |
| 21 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Iwanich | vn respond-113 «NP V»: 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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