The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 56
Leave was given him, and taking the instrument from under his cloak he touched the strings.
Who acts: you, king · What happens: leave, give, take, touch · To what, where: king, instrument, cloak, strings
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 (you, king), 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 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 given | aux:pass |
| 3 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Leave | xcomp |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 given | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 taking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 taking | cc |
| 7 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Leave | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 instrument | det |
| 9 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 cloak | case |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 cloak | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 13 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 taking | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 touched | nsubj |
| 15 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 cloak | acl:relcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 strings | det |
| 17 | strings | string | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 touched | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | past · passive | you not said here | king | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | you not said here | the instrument | king's cloak | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent instrument=Theme from cloak=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | touch | past | king | the strings | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme string=Co-Theme |
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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