The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 83
At length this longing grew so strong on him that he could bear it no more; and, calling the fairies together, he said to them: “Dear wife and sisters, I must leave you for a time, and go out and see the world.
Who acts: longing, Dear wife · What happens: grow, bear, call, say, leave, go out · To what, where: length, fairies, world · 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 (longing, Dear wife), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | obl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 longing | det |
| 4 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 strong | advmod |
| 7 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grew | xcomp |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 strong | obl |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 bear | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bear | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 bear | aux |
| 13 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 strong | advcl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 bear | obj |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 more | advmod |
| 16 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 bear | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 calling | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 calling | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 calling | punct |
| 20 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 grew | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 fairies | det |
| 22 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 calling | obj |
| 23 | together | together | ADV | _ | 20 calling | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 said | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | nsubj |
| 26 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grew | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 them | case |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 said | obl |
| 29 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 wife | punct |
| 30 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 wife | punct |
| 31 | Dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 wife | amod |
| 32 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 leave | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sisters | cc |
| 34 | sisters | sister | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 wife | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 wife | punct |
| 36 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 leave | nsubj |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 leave | aux |
| 38 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 said | ccomp |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 leave | obj |
| 40 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 time | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 time | det |
| 42 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 leave | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 go | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 go | cc |
| 45 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 grew | conj |
| 46 | out | out | ADV | _ | 45 go | advmod |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 see | cc |
| 48 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 45 go | conj |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 world | det |
| 50 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 see | obj |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | this longing | length | strong property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at length=Location | |||
| 2 | bear | could | longing | length | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary more=Patient | ||||
| 3 | call | gerund | this longing not said here | the fairies | together property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fairy=Recipient | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | longing | fairies = fairy | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | must | Dear wife and sisters | fairies = fairy | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 6 | go out in a quote | infinitive | this longing not said here | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | see in a quote | infinitive | this longing not said here | the world | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer world=Stimulus |
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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