The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon of the North(2), sentence 33
‘But where is he to find the Witch-maiden?’ said the first bird.
Who acts: Solomon · What happens: be, say · To what, where: first bird · 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 (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 | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 where | cc |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 find | advmod |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 find | cop |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 find | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 find | mark |
| 7 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 said | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 maiden | det |
| 9 | Witch | witch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 maiden | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Witch | punct |
| 11 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 find | obj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 13 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 find | punct |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bird | det |
| 16 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 17 bird | amod |
| 17 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Solomon | find property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the first bird | tree rules |
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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