The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 11
While Ilse gathered up the gold and hid it away safely, the lovers whispered together, and what Friedlin told her seemed to make Lucia every moment more happy and contented.
Who acts: Ilse, lovers, Friedlin · What happens: gather up, hide away, whisper, tell, seem, make · To what, where: gold, Lucia · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ilse, lovers, Friedlin), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 gathered | mark |
| 2 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | nsubj |
| 3 | gathered | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 whispered | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 gathered | compound:prt |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gathered | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gathered | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 hid | obj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 hid | advmod |
| 11 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 8 hid | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 gathered | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 lovers | det |
| 14 | lovers | lover | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 whispered | nsubj |
| 15 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 15 whispered | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 told | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 told | cc |
| 19 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 21 told | obj |
| 20 | Friedlin | Friedlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 told | nsubj |
| 21 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 whispered | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 seemed | nsubj |
| 23 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 told | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 seemed | xcomp |
| 26 | Lucia | Lucia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 moment | det |
| 28 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 make | obj |
| 29 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 30 happy | advmod |
| 30 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 contented | cc |
| 32 | contented | content | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 happy | conj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather up | past | Ilse | the gold | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hide away | past | Ilse not said here | gold | away, safely property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 3 | whisper speech: assert | past | the lovers | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | Friedlin | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent what=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | seem | past | Ilse | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | make | to-infinitive | Ilse not said here | Lucia | moment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lucia=Product | |||
| 7 | content | participle | Ilse not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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