The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 64
He waited till he came to a well, and there he split it open, and out sprang a maiden seven times lovelier than either of the others, and she too said: “My heart’s love, I am yours and you are mine; do give me a glass of water.”
Who acts: thing, woman, love, you, heart · What happens: wait, come, split, spring, say, be · To what, where: well, yours, woman, glass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing, woman, love, you), 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 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 5 came | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 well | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 well | det |
| 8 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 split | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 split | cc |
| 11 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 split | expl |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 split | nsubj |
| 13 | split | split | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 split | obj |
| 15 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 split | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprang | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sprang | cc |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 sprang | advmod |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 waited | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 lovelier | det |
| 21 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 lovelier | amod |
| 22 | seven | seven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 times | nummod |
| 23 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 lovelier | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | lovelier | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 sprang | xcomp |
| 25 | than | than | ADP | _ | 26 either | case |
| 26 | either | either | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 lovelier | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 others | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 others | det |
| 29 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 either | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 said | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 said | cc |
| 32 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 said | nsubj |
| 33 | too | too | ADV | _ | 34 said | advmod |
| 34 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 love | punct |
| 36 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 love | punct |
| 37 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 love | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 heart | case |
| 40 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 yours | nsubj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 yours | punct |
| 42 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 44 yours | nsubj |
| 43 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 yours | cop |
| 44 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 said | ccomp |
| 45 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 mine | cc |
| 46 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 48 mine | nsubj |
| 47 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 mine | cop |
| 48 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 yours | conj |
| 49 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 51 give | punct |
| 50 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 51 give | aux |
| 51 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 waited | parataxis |
| 52 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 give | iobj |
| 53 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 54 glass | det |
| 54 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 give | obj |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 56 water | case |
| 56 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 glass | nmod |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 51 give | punct |
| 58 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | thing | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come | past | thing | a well | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | split | past | thing | well | there | open property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||
| 4 | spring | gerund | thing not said here | lovely, out property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | present | My heart's love | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | you | woman | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | give in a quote | infinitive · do-support | a glass of water | woman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient glass=Theme | ||||
| 9 | love in a quote | My heart | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (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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