The Violet Fairy Book, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3, sentence 74
Ask the prince what else I should have put in.’
Who acts: you · What happens: ask, put in · To what, where: prince, I
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The History of Dwarf Long Nose, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Ask | obj |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 put | obj |
| 5 | else | else | ADV | _ | 4 what | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 put | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 put | aux |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 put | aux |
| 9 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ask | parataxis |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 put | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
| 12 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | imperative | you not said here | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | put in | should · perfect · passive | I | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Asset what=Goal |
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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