English Fairy Tales, Jack and His Golden Snuff-box, sentence 74
And he asked them, did they know or see anything of a castle that stood upon twelve golden pillars; and they all made a curious sound, _Kro-kro, kro-kro_, and said, No.
Who acts: King, frogs, castle · What happens: ask, know, see, stand, make, say · To what, where: frogs, anything, twelve golden pillars, curious sound, No. · 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 (King, frogs, castle), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 asked | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 said | advcl |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 asked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 know | punct |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 know | aux |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 know | nsubj |
| 8 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 see | cc |
| 10 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 know | conj |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 see | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 castle | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 castle | det |
| 14 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 anything | nmod |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 stood | nsubj |
| 16 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 castle | acl:relcl |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 pillars | case |
| 18 | twelve | twelve | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 pillars | nummod |
| 19 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 pillars | amod |
| 20 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 stood | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 made | cc |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 made | nsubj |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 made | advmod |
| 25 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sound | det |
| 27 | curious | curious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sound | amod |
| 28 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 made | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 kro | punct |
| 30 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 33 kro | punct |
| 31 | Kro | Kro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 kro | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Kro | punct |
| 33 | kro | kro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sound | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 kro | punct |
| 35 | kro | kro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 kro | conj |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 kro | punct |
| 37 | kro | kro | X | Foreign=Yes | 35 kro | conj |
| 38 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 25 made | punct |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 said | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 said | cc |
| 41 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 No. | punct |
| 43 | No. | no. | NOUN | Abbr=Yes Number=Sing | 41 said | obj |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | King | frogs = frog | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | know | past · do-support | frogs = frog | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | frogs = frog not said here | anything | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | stand | past | a castle | twelve golden pillars | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon pillar=Location | ||||
| 5 | make | past | frogs = frog | a curious sound | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sound=Product | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | No. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent no.=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: «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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