The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11, sentence 33
The captain’s heart melted at these words, and he said kindly: “You may be thankful that you were not drowned.
Who acts: Tiidu, You · What happens: melt, say, be, not drown · To what, where: heart, words, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiidu, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 captain | det |
| 2 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heart | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 captain | case |
| 4 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | ccomp |
| 5 | melted | melt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 heart | acl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 melted | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 12 said | advmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 thankful | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 thankful | punct |
| 16 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 thankful | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 thankful | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 thankful | cop |
| 19 | thankful | thankful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 said | parataxis |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 drowned | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 drowned | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 drowned | aux:pass |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 drowned | advmod |
| 24 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thankful | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | melt | participle | the captain's heart not said here | this words | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tiidu | kindly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | may | You | thankful property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not drown in a quote | past · passive | you | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=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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