Celtic Fairy Tales, The Sea-maiden, sentence 134
The king asked if there were any one else about the house that would try to take the heads off the knot.
Who acts: king, one, house · What happens: ask, be, try, take · To what, where: heads, knot
This is a sentence of «Celtic Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, The Sea-maiden. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, one, house), 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 | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 were | mark |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | ccomp |
| 7 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 one | det |
| 8 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 were | nsubj |
| 9 | else | else | ADV | _ | 8 one | advmod |
| 10 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 one | nmod |
| 13 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 try | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 try | aux |
| 15 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 house | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 try | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heads | det |
| 19 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 take | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 knot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 knot | det |
| 22 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | the king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | past | any one about the house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | try | would | the house | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the house not said here | the heads | the knot | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent head=Theme off knot=Initial_Location |
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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