The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 43
Slowly he walked to the stable, and laying his head on his horse’s shoulder, he said: “The king has ordered me to bring his wife home again, and how can I do that when she disappeared so long ago, and no one can tell me anything about her?”
Who acts: heart, king, wife, one · What happens: walk, lay, say, order, bring, do · To what, where: head, shoulder, heart, wife, that, anything · 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 (heart, king, wife, one), 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 | Slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 3 walked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 stable | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 stable | det |
| 6 | stable | stable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 laying | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 laying | cc |
| 9 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 walked | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 head | nmod:poss |
| 11 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | obj |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 shoulder | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 horse | nmod:poss |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 16 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 laying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 said | nsubj |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 walked | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 ordered | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 ordered | punct |
| 22 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 king | det |
| 23 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 ordered | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 ordered | aux |
| 25 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 said | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ordered | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 bring | mark |
| 28 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 ordered | xcomp |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 wife | nmod:poss |
| 30 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 bring | obj |
| 31 | home | home | ADV | _ | 28 bring | advmod |
| 32 | again | again | ADV | _ | 28 bring | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 do | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 do | cc |
| 35 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 do | advmod |
| 36 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 do | aux |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 do | nsubj |
| 38 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 39 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 do | obj |
| 40 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 disappeared | advmod |
| 41 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 disappeared | nsubj |
| 42 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 do | advcl |
| 43 | so | so | ADV | _ | 44 long | advmod |
| 44 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 45 ago | advmod |
| 45 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 42 disappeared | advmod |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 tell | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 tell | cc |
| 48 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 49 one | det |
| 49 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 tell | nsubj |
| 50 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 tell | aux |
| 51 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 walked | conj |
| 52 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 tell | iobj |
| 53 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 51 tell | obj |
| 54 | about | about | ADP | _ | 55 her | case |
| 55 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 anything | nmod |
| 56 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 51 tell | punct |
| 57 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 51 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | heart | to the stable result; slowly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to stable=Result | ||||
| 2 | lay | gerund | heart not said here | heart's head | heart's horse's shoulder | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme on shoulder=Destination | |||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | heart | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | order in a quote | present · perfect | the king | heart | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bring not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the king not said here | heart's wife | again | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument wife=Destination | ||
| 6 | do in a quote | can | heart | that | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | disappear in a quote | past | wife | ago property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | no one | anything | heart | about wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient anything=Topic |
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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