The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10, sentence 47
“I can show you the maiden who lives in the tree-top,” she said, but they only laughed the more loudly.
Who acts: maiden, heralds · What happens: show, live, say, laugh · To what, where: maiden, you, tree top · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (maiden, heralds), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 show | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 show | aux |
| 4 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 said | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 show | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 maiden | det |
| 7 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 show | obj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 lives | nsubj |
| 9 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tree | punct |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lives | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 show | punct |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 said | nsubj |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 laughed | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 laughed | cc |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 laughed | nsubj |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 23 laughed | advmod |
| 23 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 said | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 more | det |
| 25 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 loudly | advmod |
| 26 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 23 laughed | advmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show in a quote | can | maiden | the maiden | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient maiden=Topic | |||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | the maiden | the tree top | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in top=Location | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | maiden | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | laugh | past | heralds = herald | loudly property | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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