The Yellow Fairy Book, The Six Swans, sentence 7

‘What is the condition?’ asked the King.

Who acts: condition · What happens: be, ask · To what, where: condition, King

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 (condition), 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	_	5 condition	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 condition	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 condition	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 condition	det
5	condition	condition	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct
7	’	'	PUNCT	_	5 condition	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the condition					tree rules
2	ask speech: ask	past	the condition		the King				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent king=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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