The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 40
“No, no!” replied her father, “he is a great magician, and before I put him to death, I must first find out the secret of his power, and then—we shall see.”
Who acts: father, we · What happens: reply, be, put, find out, see · To what, where: great magician, Father, secret · 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 (father, we), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 2 No | discourse |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 father | nmod:poss |
| 9 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 magician | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 magician | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 magician | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 magician | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 magician | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 magician | amod |
| 16 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 father | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 find | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 find | cc |
| 19 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 put | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 put | nsubj |
| 21 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 put | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 put | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 put | punct |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 find | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 find | aux |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 find | advmod |
| 29 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 find | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 secret | det |
| 32 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 find | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 power | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 power | nmod:poss |
| 35 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 secret | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 see | cc |
| 38 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 42 see | advmod |
| 39 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 see | punct |
| 40 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 see | nsubj |
| 41 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 see | aux |
| 42 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | princess's father and a great magician | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | Father | a great magician | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put in a quote | past | princess's father and a great magician = father | Father | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal | |||
| 4 | find out in a quote | must | princess's father and a great magician = father | the secret of Father's power | first property | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | |||
| 5 | see in a quote | shall | we | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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