English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, sentence 28
“Canst thou tell me,” said Childe Rowland to the horse-herd, “where the King of Elfland's Dark Tower is?”
Who acts: thou, Childe, King · What happens: tell, say, be · To what, where: Childe, horse herd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «English Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Childe Rowland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, Childe, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 2 | Canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Childe | Childe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | Rowland | Rowland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Childe | flat |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 herd | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 herd | det |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 herd | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 horse | punct |
| 15 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 is | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 King | det |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Tower | case |
| 22 | Elfland | Elfland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 Tower | nmod:poss |
| 23 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 22 Elfland | case |
| 24 | Dark | Dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Tower | compound |
| 25 | Tower | Tower | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 King | nmod |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | thou | Childe | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Childe | the horse herd | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to herd=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | the King of Elfland's Dark Tower | vn exist-47.1 «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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