The Yellow Fairy Book, The Golden Crab(5), sentence 88
No sooner had he finished than the Princess asked him whether he could find the way to that palace.
Who acts: thing, Princess · What happens: have, finish, ask, find · To what, where: thing, way
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Golden Crab(5). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, Princess), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 had | advmod |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 finished | nsubj |
| 5 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 asked | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Princess | det |
| 8 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 finished | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 palace | case |
| 18 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 palace | det |
| 19 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | soon property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | finish | past | thing | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | the Princess | thing | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | find not said to happen | could | thing | the way | to that palace | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Topic |
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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