The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 22
“Paperarello,” cried the other servants, when they saw him quietly taking off his clothes, “you cannot go to bed; you will need every moment of the night for your work.
Who acts: Paperarello, mills, you, your · What happens: cry, see, take off, not go, need, work · To what, where: other servants, Paperarello, clothes, bed · 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, mills, you, your), 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 Paperarello | punct |
| 2 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Paperarello | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Paperarello | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servants | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 servants | amod |
| 8 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 cried | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 saw | advmod |
| 11 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | obj |
| 14 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 taking | advmod |
| 15 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | advcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 taking | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 18 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 taking | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 go | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 go | nsubj |
| 22 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 go | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 go | advmod |
| 24 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 taking | conj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 bed | case |
| 26 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 go | obl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 need | punct |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 need | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 need | aux |
| 30 | need | need | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cried | conj |
| 31 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 32 moment | det |
| 32 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 need | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 night | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 night | det |
| 35 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 moment | nmod |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 work | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 work | nmod:poss |
| 38 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 need | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Paperarello | the other servants | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent servant=Topic | ||||
| 2 | see | past | mills = mill | Paperarello | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take off | gerund | mills = mill not said here | Paperarello's clothes | quietly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | |||
| 4 | not go in a quote | can | you | bed | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | need in a quote | future | you | moment | for your work | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 6 | work in a quote | your | nom work «act intransitive»: 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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