The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 5

‘Good woman,’ he said to her, ‘can you not show me the way out of the wood?’

Who acts: king, you · What happens: say, not show · To what, where: woman, way, me, wood · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Six Swans. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, you), 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 woman	punct
2	Good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
5	’	'	PUNCT	_	3 woman	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
11	‘	'	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
12	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 show	aux
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 show	nsubj
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 show	advmod
15	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 show	iobj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 way	det
18	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	obl:unmarked
19	out	out	ADP	_	22 wood	case
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 wood	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 wood	det
22	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 show	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct
24	’	'	PUNCT	_	15 show	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	king		woman				vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to she=Experiencer clause=Topic
2	not show	can	you	the way	me	the wood			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient

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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