The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 45
The three servants set out at once, one seated on the back of the others, the ape, who disliked walking, being generally on top.
Who acts: one, ape · What happens: set out, seat, ape, dislike, walk, be · To what, where: three servants, back, top
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 (one, ape), 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 servants | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 servants | nummod |
| 3 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 servants | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 once | case |
| 7 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ape | punct |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 ape | nsubj |
| 10 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 one | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 back | det |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seated | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 others | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 others | det |
| 16 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 back | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ape | punct |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ape | det |
| 19 | ape | ape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 servants | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 disliked | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 disliked | nsubj |
| 22 | disliked | dislike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 ape | acl:relcl |
| 23 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 disliked | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 top | punct |
| 25 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 top | cop |
| 26 | generally | generally | ADV | _ | 28 top | advmod |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 top | case |
| 28 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walking | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 servants | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | participle | the three servants and the ape not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | seat | participle | the back of the others | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | |||||
| 3 | ape | one | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | dislike | past | the ape | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | walk | gerund | the ape not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is | gerund | top | generally property | tree rules |
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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