The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 29
He is trying to find King Solomon’s lost ring.’
Who acts: Solomon · What happens: try, find, lose · To what, where: lost ring
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 trying | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trying | aux |
| 3 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 trying | xcomp |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Solomon | compound |
| 7 | Solomon | Solomon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 ring | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Solomon | case |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 ring | amod |
| 10 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trying | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | present · progressive | Solomon | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | Solomon not said here | King Solomon's lost ring | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ring=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lose | participle | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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