The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 125
Then he asked the maiden to show him how to split stones and rocks with the help of the ring.
Who acts: finger, maiden · What happens: ask, show, split, help · To what, where: maiden, finger, stones, ring · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon of the North(2). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (finger, 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 asked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 maiden | det |
| 5 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 show | mark |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 show | iobj |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 split | advmod |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 split | mark |
| 11 | split | split | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 show | ccomp |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 split | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 rocks | cc |
| 14 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 stones | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 help | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 help | det |
| 17 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 split | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 ring | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 ring | det |
| 20 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 help | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | finger | the maiden | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent maiden=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | show not said to happen | to-infinitive | the maiden not said here | finger | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | split | to-infinitive | stones and rocks | with the help of the ring | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent stone=Patient with help=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | help | the ring | nom help «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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