The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 24
Then there was great rejoicing in the house; Lucia ran to embrace him, and even Dame Ilse held out her hand in welcome, and only said: “Rogue, mend your ways,” when she remembered the empty treasure cupboard.
Who acts: Lucia, Dame · What happens: rejoice, be, embrace, hold out, say, mend · To what, where: house, Lucia, hand, welcome, ways, empty treasure cupboard · 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 (Lucia, Dame), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | cop |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 was | xcomp |
| 5 | rejoicing | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 great | advcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rejoicing | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
| 10 | Lucia | Lucia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ran | nsubj |
| 11 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 embrace | mark |
| 13 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 ran | xcomp |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 embrace | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 held | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 held | cc |
| 17 | even | even | ADV | _ | 18 Dame | advmod |
| 18 | Dame | Dame | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 held | nsubj |
| 19 | Ilse | Ilse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Dame | flat |
| 20 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 held | compound:prt |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hand | nmod:poss |
| 23 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obj |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 welcome | case |
| 25 | welcome | welcome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 held | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 said | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 said | cc |
| 28 | only | only | ADV | _ | 29 said | advmod |
| 29 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ran | conj |
| 30 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 32 Rogue | punct |
| 31 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Rogue | punct |
| 32 | Rogue | rogue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 said | ccomp |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mend | punct |
| 34 | mend | mend | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 Rogue | parataxis |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 ways | nmod:poss |
| 36 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 mend | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 mend | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 Rogue | punct |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 41 remembered | advmod |
| 40 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 remembered | nsubj |
| 41 | remembered | remember | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 said | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 cupboard | det |
| 43 | empty | empty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 cupboard | amod |
| 44 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 cupboard | compound |
| 45 | cupboard | cupboard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 remembered | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | gerund | Lucia not said here | the house | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Lucia | run property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | embrace | to-infinitive | Lucia not said here | Lucia | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | hold out | past | Dame | dame's hand | welcome | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent hand=Theme in welcome=Location | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Lucia not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | mend in a quote | infinitive | your ways | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | remember | past | dame | the empty treasure cupboard | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent cupboard=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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