The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 35
The servants stood and stared in surprise, and the king said: “Well done, Paperarello, you have won my daughter.”
Who acts: servants, king, you · What happens: stand, stare, say, do, win · To what, where: Paperarello, daughter · 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 (servants, king, you), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stood | nsubj |
| 3 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stared | cc |
| 5 | stared | stare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 surprise | case |
| 7 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 said | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 stood | conj |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 done | punct |
| 15 | Well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 done | advmod |
| 16 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Paperarello | punct |
| 18 | Paperarello | Paperarello | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 done | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 won | punct |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 won | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 won | aux |
| 22 | won | win | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 done | parataxis |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 24 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 won | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the servants | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | stare | past | the servants not said here | in surprise | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in surprise=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | participle | Paperarello | well property | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | win in a quote | present · perfect | you | my daughter | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Eventuality |
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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