The Green Fairy Book, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature, sentence 24
The King said to the huntsmen, ‘See what sort of a wild beast is in there.’
Who acts: King, sort · What happens: say, see, be, sort · To what, where: wild beast · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Allerleirauh; Or, the Many-furred Creature. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, sort), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 huntsmen | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 huntsmen | det |
| 6 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 See | punct |
| 8 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 See | punct |
| 9 | See | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 said | ccomp |
| 10 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 11 sort | det |
| 11 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 there | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 beast | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 beast | det |
| 14 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 beast | amod |
| 15 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 sort | nmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 there | cop |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 there | case |
| 18 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 See | ccomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 See | punct |
| 20 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 9 See | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the King | to the huntsmen | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to huntsman=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | is | present | what sort of a wild beast | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sort | a wild beast | nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=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 Green Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 7277 (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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