English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 52
He asked the little mouse: “Where does the King live?
Who acts: Jack, King · What happens: ask, live · To what, where: little mouse · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Jack, King), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mouse | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mouse | amod |
| 5 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 asked | obj |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 live | punct |
| 8 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 live | advmod |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 live | aux |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 live | nsubj |
| 12 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 asked | conj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | Jack | the little mouse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouse=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | live in a quote | present · do-support | the King | vn exist-47.1-1 «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: «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7439 (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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