The Violet Fairy Book, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples, sentence 61
‘Oh, brother!’ asked the prince, ‘tell me, if you can, where the dragon-emperor lives?’
Who acts: brother · What happens: ask, tell · To what, where: prince, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Nine Pea-hens and the Golden Apples. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brother), 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 | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 4 brother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 4 brother | punct |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prince | det |
| 9 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 asked | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | iobj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 can | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 can | mark |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 can | nsubj |
| 17 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 tell | ccomp |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lives | punct |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 lives | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 emperor | det |
| 21 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 emperor | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 dragon | punct |
| 23 | emperor | emperor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 lives | compound |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 can | conj |
| 25 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | brother | the prince | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
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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