The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 19
Now Paperarello, who was passing through the hall where the king was giving his orders, heard these words, and said: “Your Majesty, have no fears; I will bake your bread.”
Who acts: Paperarello, king, Majesty · What happens: pass, give, hear, say, have, bake · To what, where: hall, orders, words, fears, bread · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Paperarello, king, Majesty), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 heard | advmod |
| 2 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passing | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 passing | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passing | aux |
| 6 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Paperarello | acl |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hall | det |
| 9 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passing | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 giving | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 giving | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 giving | aux |
| 14 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 hall | acl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 orders | nmod:poss |
| 16 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 giving | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Paperarello | punct |
| 18 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 words | det |
| 20 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 heard | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 said | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 said | cc |
| 23 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 heard | conj |
| 24 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 25 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 have | punct |
| 26 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 27 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 have | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Majesty | punct |
| 29 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 said | ccomp |
| 30 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 31 fears | det |
| 31 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 have | obj |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 bake | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 bake | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 bake | aux |
| 35 | bake | bake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 heard | parataxis |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 bread | nmod:poss |
| 37 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 bake | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 bake | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 bake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · progressive | Paperarello | the hall | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through hall=Location | ||||
| 2 | give | past · progressive | the king | king's orders | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Paperarello | this words | now | tree rules | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Paperarello not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have in a quote | present | Your Majesty | no fears | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | ||||
| 6 | bake in a quote | future | Paperarello | your bread | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Product | ||||
| 7 | order | king | nom order «communication 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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