The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 91
Now some of the king’s servants had taken note of the matter, and warned their master not to eat and drink anything that the queen offered him, as for two nights running she had given him a sleeping draught.
Who acts: queen, two nights · What happens: take, warn, not eat, drink, offer, run · To what, where: some, master, anything, king, sleeping draught, matter · 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 (queen, two nights), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 taken | advmod |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 servants | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 servants | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 some | nmod |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 matter | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 matter | det |
| 13 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 note | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 warned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 warned | cc |
| 16 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | conj |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 warned | obj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 eat | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 eat | mark |
| 21 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 warned | ccomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 drink | cc |
| 23 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 eat | conj |
| 24 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 23 drink | obj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 offered | obj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 queen | det |
| 27 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 offered | nsubj |
| 28 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 anything | acl:relcl |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 offered | iobj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 nights | punct |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 34 nights | case |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 as | fixed |
| 33 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 34 nights | nummod |
| 34 | nights | night | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 drink | advcl |
| 35 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 nights | acl |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 given | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 given | aux |
| 38 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 running | ccomp |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 given | iobj |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 draught | det |
| 41 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 42 draught | amod |
| 42 | draught | draught | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 given | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect · passive | some | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme note=Destination | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | servants's master | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent master=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not eat | to-infinitive | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | |||||
| 5 | offer | past | the queen | king | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal that=Theme | ||||
| 6 | run | gerund | two nights not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | give | past · perfect | queen | a sleeping draught | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient draught=Theme | |||
| 8 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 9 | note | the matter | nom note «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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