The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 1, sentence 95
All of a sudden he saw a lovely maiden who bent over him and said: “My dearest love, I am yours and you are mine.
Who acts: All, lovely maiden, dearest love, you, My · What happens: see, bend, say, be, love · To what, where: lovely maiden, yours, All · 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 (All, lovely maiden, dearest 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 sudden | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sudden | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 All | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 maiden | det |
| 8 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 maiden | amod |
| 9 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 bent | nsubj |
| 11 | bent | bend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bent | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 yours | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 yours | punct |
| 18 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 love | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dearest | dear | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 love | amod |
| 20 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 yours | nsubj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 yours | punct |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 yours | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 yours | cop |
| 24 | yours | your | PRON | Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 said | ccomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 mine | cc |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 mine | nsubj |
| 27 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 mine | cop |
| 28 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 yours | conj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | All | a lovely maiden | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | bend | past | a lovely maiden | over king | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over he=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | All not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | My dearest love | yours | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a in a quote | present | you | All | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | love in a quote | My | 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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