The Violet Fairy Book, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2, sentence 155
‘For,’ he said, ‘who knows how far the Fairy of the Dawn may yet be?’
Who acts: Petru, Fairy · What happens: say, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Fairy of the Dawn, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Petru, Fairy), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | For | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 said | mark |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 4 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 For | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 knows | nsubj |
| 10 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 far | advmod |
| 12 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 be | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Fairy | det |
| 14 | Fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 be | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Dawn | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dawn | det |
| 17 | Dawn | Dawn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Fairy | nmod |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 be | aux |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 be | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 knows | ccomp |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
| 22 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 10 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Petru | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | know | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | be | may | the Fairy of the Dawn | yet | far property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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 Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (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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