The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 1

“Tell us now, Father Martin, did you go to the mountain and find what the spirit promised you; or is it a fable?”

Who acts: you, spirit · What happens: tell, go, find, promise, be · To what, where: Father, mountain, you, fable · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, spirit), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 Tell	iobj
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 Tell	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Father	punct
6	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	iobj
7	Martin	Martin	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Father	flat
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 go	punct
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	parataxis
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 mountain	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mountain	det
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 find	cc
16	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 go	conj
17	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	20 promised	obj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 spirit	det
19	spirit	spirit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 promised	nsubj
20	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 find	ccomp
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 promised	obj
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 fable	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 fable	cc
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 fable	cop
25	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 fable	nsubj
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 fable	det
27	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
29	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here		Father		now	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient father=Topic
2	go in a quote	past · do-support	you			the mountain		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mountain=Initial_Location
3	find in a quote	infinitive	you not said here					vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	promise speech: promise in a quote	past	the spirit		you			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal you=Theme
5	is a in a quote	present	spirit	a fable				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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