The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 13, sentence 92
“Indeed there is nothing that would be more welcome to me than a night’s lodging,” answered the boy; “I have been wandering all day in the forest, and did not know how to get home again.
Who acts: nothing, boy · What happens: be, answer, wonder, not know, get · To what, where: boy, forest · 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 (nothing, boy), 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 | _ | 20 answered | punct |
| 2 | Indeed | indeed | ADV | _ | 4 is | advmod |
| 3 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 4 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 answered | advcl |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 is | nsubj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 welcome | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 welcome | aux |
| 8 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 welcome | cop |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 welcome | advmod |
| 10 | welcome | welcome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 welcome | obl |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 lodging | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 night | det |
| 15 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lodging | nmod:poss |
| 16 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 15 night | case |
| 17 | lodging | lodging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 welcome | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 20 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 answered | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 wandering | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 wandering | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 wandering | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 wandering | aux |
| 27 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 wandering | aux |
| 28 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 answered | advcl |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 day | det |
| 30 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wandering | obl:unmarked |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 forest | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 forest | det |
| 33 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 wandering | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 know | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 know | cc |
| 36 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 know | aux |
| 37 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 38 know | advmod |
| 38 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 answered | conj |
| 39 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 get | advmod |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 get | mark |
| 41 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 know | ccomp |
| 42 | home | home | ADV | _ | 41 get | advmod |
| 43 | again | again | ADV | _ | 41 get | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | nothing | there | indeed property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | the boy = boy | than a night's lodging; welcome property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the boy | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | wonder speech: ask in a quote | present · perfect · progressive | the boy = boy | the forest | day | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 5 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | the boy not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | get in a quote | to-infinitive | again | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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