The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 30

The other bird answered, ‘He will have to seek help from the Witch-maiden,(3) who will doubtless be able to put him on the right track.

Who acts: other bird, Solomon · What happens: answer, have, seek, be, put · To what, where: help, Solomon, right track · 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 (other bird, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 answered	nsubj
4	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
6	‘	‘	SCONJ	_	9 have	mark
7	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 have	aux
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 answered	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 seek	mark
11	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 seek	obj
13	from	from	SCONJ	_	17 maiden	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 maiden	det
15	Witch	witch	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 maiden	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 Witch	punct
17	maiden	maiden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 seek	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 3	punct
19	(	(	PUNCT	_	20 3	punct
20	3	3	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	17 maiden	obl
21	)	)	PUNCT	_	20 3	punct
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 able	nsubj
23	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 able	aux
24	doubtless	doubtless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 able	amod
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	cop
26	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 maiden	conj
27	to	to	PART	_	28 put	mark
28	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 able	xcomp
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 put	obj
30	on	on	ADP	_	33 track	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 track	det
32	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 track	amod
33	track	track	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 put	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 answered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	past	the other bird				tree rules
2	have	future	Solomon				tree rules
3	seek	to-infinitive	Solomon not said here	help			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent help=Theme
4	is	future				able property	tree rules
5	put	to-infinitive		Solomon	the right track		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme on track=Destination

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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