The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 14, sentence 84
When they had finished the queen said: “My son, I am thirsty; fetch me some water.”
Who acts: faults, queen, son · What happens: finish, say, be, fetch · To what, where: water, queen · 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 (faults, queen, son), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 finished | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 finished | aux |
| 4 | finished | finish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 queen | det |
| 6 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 15 thirsty | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 thirsty | punct |
| 10 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 thirsty | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 son | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 thirsty | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 thirsty | cop |
| 15 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 fetch | punct |
| 17 | fetch | fetch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 thirsty | parataxis |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 fetch | obj |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 water | det |
| 20 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fetch | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past · perfect | faults = fault | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | My son | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | fetch in a quote | infinitive | some water | the queen = queen | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary water=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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