The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 31
The robber captain thought this good counsel, and the next morning, when the young man went to bathe, he unhooked the sword from its nail and buckled it round his waist.
Who acts: robber captain, young man, man · What happens: think, go, bathe, unhook, buckle · To what, where: good counsel, sword
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (robber captain, young man, man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 captain | det |
| 2 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 captain | compound |
| 3 | captain | captain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 counsel | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 counsel | amod |
| 7 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 went | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 morning | det |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 went | punct |
| 14 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 18 went | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 went | nsubj |
| 18 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bathe | mark |
| 20 | bathe | bathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 went | xcomp |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 unhooked | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 unhooked | nsubj |
| 23 | unhooked | unhook | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 sword | det |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unhooked | obj |
| 26 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 nail | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 nail | nmod:poss |
| 28 | nail | nail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 unhooked | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 buckled | cc |
| 30 | buckled | buckle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 unhooked | conj |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 buckled | obj |
| 32 | round | round | ADP | _ | 34 waist | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 waist | nmod:poss |
| 34 | waist | waist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 buckled | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the robber captain | this good counsel | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot counsel=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | past | the young man | morning | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | bathe | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | unhook | past | man | the sword | from sword's nail | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent sword=Patient from nail=Co-Patient | |||
| 5 | buckle | past | man not said here | sword | round man's waist | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
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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