The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 29
With what joy did he seize them and begin one of his favourite tunes; and as he played hope sprang up in his heart, and he looked out to sea, to try to detect the sign of a sail.
Who acts: shrinking, hope · What happens: seize, begin, play, spring up, look out, try · To what, where: pipes, one, heart, sign, sail
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shrinking, hope), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 joy | case |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 joy | nsubj |
| 3 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seize | obl |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seize | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seize | nsubj |
| 6 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 seize | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 begin | cc |
| 9 | begin | begin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 seize | conj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 begin | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tunes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 tunes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tunes | amod |
| 14 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 one | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 played | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 played | cc |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 played | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 played | nsubj |
| 19 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seize | parataxis |
| 20 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sprang | nsubj |
| 21 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 played | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 sprang | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 heart | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 heart | nmod:poss |
| 25 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sprang | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 looked | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 looked | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 looked | nsubj |
| 29 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 played | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 looked | compound:prt |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 sea | case |
| 32 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 looked | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 try | punct |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 try | mark |
| 35 | try | try | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 seize | parataxis |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 detect | mark |
| 37 | detect | detect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 try | xcomp |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 sign | det |
| 39 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 detect | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 sail | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 sail | det |
| 42 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sign | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seize | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seize | past · do-support | shrinking | pipes = pipe | with joy | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | infinitive | shrinking not said here | one of shrinking's favourite tunes | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | play | past | shrinking | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | spring up | past | hope | shrinking's heart | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in heart=Location | ||||
| 5 | look out | past | shrinking | to sea | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | try | to-infinitive | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 7 | detect not said to happen | to-infinitive | the sign of a sail | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sign=Stimulus | |||||
| 8 | sign | a sail | nom sign «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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