The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 47
He stepped into the carriage, and was driven post haste to the king, who was feverishly counting every moment, for both his nose and the queen’s were by this time more than a yard long, and they did not know where they would stop.
Who acts: trace, time, counting, summons · What happens: step, drive, be, count, not know, stop · To what, where: carriage, driven post haste · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (trace, time, counting, summons), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 carriage | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 carriage | det |
| 5 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 haste | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 haste | cc |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 haste | cop |
| 9 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 haste | amod |
| 10 | post | post | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 haste | amod |
| 11 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 king | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 king | det |
| 14 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 haste | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 counting | punct |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 counting | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 counting | aux |
| 18 | feverishly | feverishly | ADV | _ | 19 counting | advmod |
| 19 | counting | count | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 time | csubj |
| 20 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 moment | det |
| 21 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 counting | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 nose | punct |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 nose | case |
| 24 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 nose | det:predet |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 nose | nmod:poss |
| 26 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 counting | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 queen | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 queen | det |
| 29 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 nose | conj |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 queen | case |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 time | cop |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 34 time | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 haste | obl:unmarked |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 34 time | amod |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 38 yard | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 yard | det |
| 38 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 more | obl |
| 39 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 yard | amod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 know | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 know | cc |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 know | nsubj |
| 43 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 know | aux |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 45 know | advmod |
| 45 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 stepped | parataxis |
| 46 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 49 stop | advmod |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 stop | nsubj |
| 48 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 stop | aux |
| 49 | stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 know | ccomp |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | trace | the carriage | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into carriage=Destination | ||||
| 2 | drive | participle | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | driven post haste | to the king | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | count | past · progressive | this time | moment | for trace's nose and the queen; feverishly property | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | is | past | counting | by this time | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not know | past · do-support | summons = summon | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | stop | would | summons = summon | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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