The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 64
On the third day the same thing happened, and this time he asked for the king’s nose as the reward of his aid.
Who acts: same thing, thing · What happens: happen, ask, reward · To what, where: aid
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 (same thing, thing), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 thing | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 thing | amod |
| 7 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 happened | nsubj |
| 8 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 asked | cc |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 time | det |
| 12 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 asked | nsubj |
| 14 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 happened | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 nose | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 nose | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 king | case |
| 19 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 22 reward | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reward | det |
| 22 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 asked | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 aid | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 aid | nmod:poss |
| 25 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 reward | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | the same thing | day | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | thing | time | for the king's nose; as the reward of thing's aid | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | reward | thing's aid | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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