The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 104
“This must be the place,” said a voice, which the prince took to be that of the captain.
Who acts: This, place, prince · What happens: be, say, take · To what, where: place, voice · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (This, place, prince), 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 | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 place | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 place | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 place | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 place | det |
| 6 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 place | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 voice | det |
| 11 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 took | obj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 voice | acl:relcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 that | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 that | cop |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 took | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 captain | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 captain | det |
| 22 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 that | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | must | This | the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the place | a voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent voice=Topic | ||||
| 3 | take | past | the prince | a voice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | to-infinitive | a voice | of the captain | tree rules |
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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