The Yellow Fairy Book, The Flower Queen’s Daughter(23), sentence 30
He asked him the same question, and the old man answered, ‘No, I do not know where the Dragon lives.
Who acts: father, old man, I, Dragon · What happens: ask, answer, not know, live · To what, where: same question, man · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father, old man, I, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 question | det |
| 5 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 question | amod |
| 6 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 answered | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 answered | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 answered | nsubj |
| 12 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 14 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 15 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | discourse |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 know | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 know | nsubj |
| 18 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 know | advmod |
| 20 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 answered | conj |
| 21 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 lives | advmod |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Dragon | det |
| 23 | Dragon | Dragon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lives | nsubj |
| 24 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 know | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | father | the same question | man | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the old man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | live | present | the Dragon | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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