The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 16, sentence 33
Peter was thinking of her as he sat in the inn kitchen and heard the shepherds talking about the buried treasure, and for her sake he resolved to go and seek for it.
Who acts: Peter, shepherds · What happens: think, sit, hear, talk, bury, resolve · To what, where: inn kitchen, shepherds
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 (Peter, shepherds), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | aux |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 her | case |
| 5 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thinking | obl |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 sat | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thinking | advcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 kitchen | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 kitchen | det |
| 11 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 kitchen | compound |
| 12 | kitchen | kitchen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 heard | cc |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sat | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shepherds | det |
| 16 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 heard | obj |
| 17 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 shepherds | acl |
| 18 | about | about | ADP | _ | 21 treasure | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 treasure | det |
| 20 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 treasure | amod |
| 21 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 talking | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 resolved | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 resolved | cc |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 sake | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 sake | nmod:poss |
| 26 | sake | sake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 resolved | obl |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 resolved | nsubj |
| 28 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 heard | conj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 go | mark |
| 30 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 resolved | xcomp |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 seek | cc |
| 32 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 go | conj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 it | case |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 seek | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | Peter | of daughter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | Peter | the inn kitchen | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kitchen=Location | ||||
| 3 | hear | past | Peter not said here | the shepherds | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer shepherd=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | talk | gerund | the shepherds not said here | about the buried treasure | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about treasure=Topic | ||||
| 5 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | resolve | past | Peter | for daughter's sake | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | seek | infinitive | Peter not said here | for sake | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for it=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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