The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 103
Then he came downstairs and began to talk to the housekeeper.
Who acts: magician · What happens: come, begin, talk
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | downstairs | downstairs | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 began | cc |
| 6 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 talk | mark |
| 8 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 began | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 housekeeper | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 housekeeper | det |
| 11 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 talk | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | magician | then | downstairs property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | begin | past | magician not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | talk | to-infinitive | magician not said here | to the housekeeper | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to housekeeper=Co-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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