The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 12, sentence 92
Then suddenly he remembered the fairy’s gift, and taking out the curl he said to it: “I want a castle here, and servants, and dinner, and everything to make me comfortable tonight; and besides that, I must have a stable and fodder for my horse.”
Who acts: beast, thing, fairy · What happens: remember, take out, say, want, make, have · To what, where: gift, curl, castle, thing, stable · 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 (beast, thing, fairy), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 2 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 remembered | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 remembered | nsubj |
| 4 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fairy | det |
| 6 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gift | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 fairy | case |
| 8 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 taking | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 taking | cc |
| 11 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 remembered | advcl |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 taking | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 curl | det |
| 14 | curl | curl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taking | obj |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 curl | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | obl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 want | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 want | nsubj |
| 22 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 remembered | advcl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 castle | det |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 want | obj |
| 25 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 22 want | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 servants | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 servants | cc |
| 28 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 remembered | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dinner | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dinner | cc |
| 31 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 everything | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 everything | cc |
| 34 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 remembered | parataxis |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 make | mark |
| 36 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 everything | acl |
| 37 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 make | obj |
| 38 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 tonight | amod |
| 39 | tonight | tonight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 make | obl:unmarked |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 47 have | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 have | cc |
| 42 | besides | besides | ADP | _ | 43 that | case |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 47 have | obl |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 that | punct |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 have | nsubj |
| 46 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 have | aux |
| 47 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 remembered | parataxis |
| 48 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 stable | det |
| 49 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 have | obj |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 fodder | cc |
| 51 | fodder | fodder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 stable | conj |
| 52 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 horse | case |
| 53 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 54 horse | nmod:poss |
| 54 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 stable | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 47 have | punct |
| 56 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 47 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | past | beast | the fairy's gift | then | servants obl; dinner obl; suddenly property | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent gift=Theme clause=Attribute | ||
| 2 | take out | gerund | beast not said here | the curl | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent curl=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | beast | the curl not said here | curl | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent curl=Topic to it=Recipient | |||
| 4 | want in a quote | present | thing | a castle | here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot castle=Theme | |||
| 5 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | beast not said here | thing | tonight | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset i=Product | |||
| 6 | have in a quote | must | thing | a stable and fodder | besides that; for my horse | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stable=Patient | |||
| 7 | gift | the fairy | nom gift «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
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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