The Yellow Fairy Book, The Iron Stove(7), sentence 7
She answered, ‘I have lost my way to my father’s kingdom, and I shall never get home again.’
Who acts: voice, I · What happens: answer, lose, not get · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Iron Stove(7). The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (voice, I), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 answered | nsubj |
| 2 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 4 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 7 lost | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 lost | nsubj |
| 6 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lost | aux |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 way | nmod:poss |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 kingdom | case |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 father | nmod:poss |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 father | case |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 19 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 20 get | advmod |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 answered | ccomp |
| 21 | home | home | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 22 | again | again | ADV | _ | 20 get | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
| 24 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 20 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert | past | voice | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lose | present · perfect | I | my way | to my father's kingdom | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | not get | shall | I | again | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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