The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 62
He asked her in all the languages he knew, but she remained as dumb as a fish.
Who acts: king, maiden · What happens: ask, know, remain · To what, where: maiden, languages
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, maiden), 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 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | iobj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 languages | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 languages | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 languages | det |
| 7 | languages | language | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 asked | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 knew | nsubj |
| 9 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 languages | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 remained | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 remained | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 remained | nsubj |
| 13 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 asked | conj |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 dumb | advmod |
| 15 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 remained | xcomp |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 fish | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 fish | det |
| 18 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 dumb | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | king | maiden | all languages | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||
| 2 | know | past | king | all languages not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer language=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | remain | past | maiden | dumb property | vn exist-47.1 «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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