The Violet Fairy Book, The Grateful Prince, part 1, sentence 35
Is there no one to show me the way out of the wood?’
Who acts: one · What happens: be, show · To what, where: way, me, wood
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Grateful Prince, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one), 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 | Is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 1 Is | expl |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 one | det |
| 4 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Is | nsubj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 show | mark |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 one | acl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 show | iobj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 wood | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wood | det |
| 13 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Is | punct |
| 15 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 1 Is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | no one | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | to-infinitive | no one not said here | the way | me | the wood | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic |
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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