The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 15, sentence 74
The strange being beckoned with his hand that I should follow him; but as I did not stir from the spot he spoke in a hoarse, grating voice: ‘Take courage, faint-hearted shepherd.
Who acts: hand, I, beard · What happens: beckon, follow, not stir, speak, grate, take · To what, where: beard, spot, hoarse grating voice, courage · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (hand, I, beard), 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 | 4 beckoned | det |
| 2 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beckoned | compound |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 beckoned | aux:pass |
| 4 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 hand | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hand | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beckoned | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 follow | nsubj |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 follow | nsubj |
| 10 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 follow | aux |
| 11 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hand | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 follow | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 stir | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 stir | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 stir | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 stir | nsubj |
| 17 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 stir | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 stir | advmod |
| 19 | stir | stir | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 beckoned | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 spot | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spot | det |
| 22 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 stir | obl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 spoke | nsubj |
| 24 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 spot | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 voice | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 voice | det |
| 27 | hoarse | hoarse | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 voice | amod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 grating | punct |
| 29 | grating | grate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 voice | amod |
| 30 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spoke | obl |
| 31 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 33 Take | punct |
| 32 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 33 Take | punct |
| 33 | Take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 stir | conj |
| 34 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Take | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 shepherd | punct |
| 36 | faint | faint | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 shepherd | amod |
| 37 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 36 faint | punct |
| 38 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 shepherd | amod |
| 39 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 courage | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 beckoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beckon | gerund · passive | with beard's hand | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V» | |||||
| 2 | follow | should | beard's hand | beard | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | not stir | past · do-support | I | the spot | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | beard | the spot not said here | a hoarse grating voice | tree rules | |||
| 5 | grate | gerund | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | ||||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | I not said here | courage and faint hearted shepherd | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent courage=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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