The Yellow Fairy Book, Hermod and Hadvor (32), sentence 27
One time, when Olof was in the castle beside Hadvor, she asked the Princess if she knew where Hermod had gone to.
Who acts: Olof, Hermod · What happens: be, ask, know, go · To what, where: castle, Princess · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Hermod and Hadvor (32). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Olof, Hermod), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 time | nummod |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 castle | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 castle | advmod |
| 5 | Olof | Olof | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 castle | cop |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 castle | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 castle | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | nmod |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 11 Hadvor | case |
| 11 | Hadvor | Hadvor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 castle | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 time | punct |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 knew | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 knew | nsubj |
| 19 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 asked | advcl |
| 20 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 gone | advmod |
| 21 | Hermod | Hermod | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 gone | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gone | aux |
| 23 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 knew | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 gone | xcomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Olof | the castle | beside Hadvor | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Olof | the Princess | time | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent princess=Recipient | |||
| 3 | know a condition, not said to happen | past | Olof | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | Hermod | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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