The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 26
The Prince asked him, ‘Do you not know where the Dragon lives who keeps the daughter of the Flower Queen prisoner?’
Who acts: Prince, you, Dragon · What happens: ask, not know, live, keep · To what, where: horse, daughter
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Prince, you, Dragon), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Prince | det |
| 2 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 6 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 know | punct |
| 7 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | aux |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 know | nsubj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 know | advmod |
| 10 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 lives | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Dragon | det |
| 13 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 lives | nsubj |
| 14 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 know | conj |
| 15 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 keeps | nsubj |
| 16 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 lives | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 daughter | det |
| 18 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 keeps | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 prisoner | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prisoner | det |
| 21 | Flower | Flower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Queen | compound |
| 22 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 prisoner | compound |
| 23 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 daughter | nmod |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
| 25 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the Prince | horse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | live | present | the Dragon | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | keep | present | the daughter of the Queen prisoner | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Theme |
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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