The Yellow Fairy Book, The Dragon and His Grandmother, sentence 46
Then in the course of the conversation she asked him what he had done in the day, and how many souls he had conquered.
Who acts: grandmother, stone · What happens: ask, do, conquer · To what, where: stone, course, many souls · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Yellow Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Dragon and His Grandmother. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (grandmother, stone), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 asked | advmod |
| 2 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 course | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 course | det |
| 4 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 conversation | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 conversation | det |
| 7 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 course | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | iobj |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 done | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 day | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 day | det |
| 17 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 conquered | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 conquered | cc |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 many | advmod |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 souls | amod |
| 22 | souls | soul | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 conquered | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 conquered | aux |
| 25 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 asked | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | grandmother | stone | the course of the conversation | then | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | stone | day | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | conquer | past · perfect · passive | many souls | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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