The Yellow Fairy Book, Prince Ring (30), sentence 94
‘Where am I to look for them, then?’ said Ring.
Who acts: I, Ring · What happens: look, say · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Prince Ring (30). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Ring), 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 | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 6 look | advmod |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 look | aux |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 look | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 look | mark |
| 6 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 look | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 look | advmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 6 look | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | Ring | Ring | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | present | I | then | for King | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for they=Theme | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Ring | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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