The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 71
“Come with me,” said the man gladly, for he was an ogre, and fed on human flesh; and the king and his mother went with him, and he led them to his house.
Who acts: man, king · What happens: come, say, be, feed, go, lead · To what, where: ogre, men, house · 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 (man, king), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Come | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 man | det |
| 9 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 10 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 7 said | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ogre | punct |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ogre | case |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ogre | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 ogre | cop |
| 15 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 ogre | det |
| 16 | ogre | ogre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 fed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fed | cc |
| 19 | fed | feed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 ogre | acl |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 flesh | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 flesh | amod |
| 22 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fed | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 went | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 king | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 king | det |
| 26 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 went | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 mother | cc |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 mother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 king | conj |
| 30 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | parataxis |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 went | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 led | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 led | cc |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 led | nsubj |
| 36 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 went | conj |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 led | obj |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 house | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 house | nmod:poss |
| 40 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 led | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | with the man = man | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the man | gladly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | past | king | for a ogre | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | feed | participle | a ogre not said here | on human flesh | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on flesh=Patient | ||||
| 5 | go | past | the king and king's mother | with son | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | lead | past | king | men = man | king's house | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to house=Destination |
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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