The Yellow Fairy Book, The Swineherd, sentence 34
‘Can I get a place here as servant in the castle?’
Who acts: I · What happens: get · To what, where: place, castle
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Swineherd. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 2 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 7 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 get | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 servant | case |
| 9 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 castle | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 castle | det |
| 12 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| 14 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | can | I | a place | the castle; here | as servant | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus as servant=Attribute |
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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