Celtic Fairy Tales, Gold-tree and Silver-tree, sentence 10
He went where she was, and asked her what was wrong with her.
Who acts: king, Troutie · What happens: go, be, ask · To what, where: Troutie · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Gold-tree and Silver-tree. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Troutie), 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 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 was | advmod |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 asked | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 wrong | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 wrong | cop |
| 12 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 asked | ccomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 her | case |
| 14 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 wrong | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | king | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be | past | Troutie | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | king not said here | Troutie | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | with Troutie; wrong property | tree rules |
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: «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7885 (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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