The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 28
‘I know that wandering fool under the tree there, who has come so far without finding what he seeks.
Who acts: I, Solomon · What happens: know, wonder, come, find, seek · To what, where: fool, tree · 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 (I, Solomon), 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 | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 wandering | mark |
| 5 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 know | advcl |
| 6 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandering | obj |
| 7 | under | under | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wandering | obl |
| 10 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 know | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 come | punct |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 come | nsubj |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 come | aux |
| 14 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 know | parataxis |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 far | advmod |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 come | advmod |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 finding | mark |
| 18 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 come | advcl |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 seeks | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 seeks | nsubj |
| 21 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 finding | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | I | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | I not said here | fool | the tree | tree rules | |||
| 3 | come | present · perfect | far property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find | gerund | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | seek | present | Solomon | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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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