The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 58
But the youth paid no heed, and the tunes rang out more merrily than before, and by the time the sun set they both sank on the ground exhausted, and declared that the hanging must be put off till to-morrow.
Who acts: youth, tunes, sun, notes, ground · What happens: pay, ring out, set, sink, exhaust, declare · To what, where: heed, hanging
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 (youth, tunes, sun, notes), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 paid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 youth | det |
| 3 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 heed | det |
| 6 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 rang | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rang | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tunes | det |
| 10 | tunes | tune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rang | nsubj |
| 11 | rang | ring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | conj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 rang | compound:prt |
| 13 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 14 merrily | advmod |
| 14 | merrily | merrily | ADV | _ | 11 rang | advmod |
| 15 | than | than | ADP | _ | 16 before | case |
| 16 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 merrily | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 set | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 set | cc |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 time | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 time | det |
| 21 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 sun | det |
| 23 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 set | nsubj |
| 24 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 rang | conj |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 sank | nsubj |
| 26 | both | both | ADV | _ | 27 sank | advmod |
| 27 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 set | ccomp |
| 28 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 31 exhausted | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ground | det |
| 30 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 exhausted | nsubj |
| 31 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sank | advcl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 declared | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 declared | cc |
| 34 | declared | declare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 paid | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 put | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hanging | det |
| 37 | hanging | hanging | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 put | aux |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 put | aux:pass |
| 40 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 declared | advcl |
| 41 | off | off | ADP | _ | 40 put | compound:prt |
| 42 | till | till | ADP | _ | 45 morrow | case |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 morrow | case |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 to | punct |
| 45 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 put | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the youth | no heed | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | ||||
| 2 | ring out | past | the tunes | merrily property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set | past | the sun | time | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | sink | past | notes = note | both property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | exhaust | past | the ground | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | declare speech: other | past | the youth not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | put off | must · passive | the hanging | till morrow | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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