The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 53
Father Peter did his best to cheer the young man up, and invited him to sup with him at the first inn they came to, thinking that perhaps hunger and poverty were causing the stranger’s trouble.
Who acts: Father, man, feet, hunger, stranger · What happens: do, cheer up, invite, sup, come, think · To what, where: best, young man, man, first inn, trouble · 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 (Father, man, feet, hunger), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Father | flat |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 best | nmod:poss |
| 5 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 cheer | mark |
| 7 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 did | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 man | amod |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cheer | obj |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 cheer | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 invited | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 invited | cc |
| 14 | invited | invite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 invited | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 sup | mark |
| 17 | sup | sup | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 invited | xcomp |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sup | obl |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 inn | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 inn | det |
| 22 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 23 inn | amod |
| 23 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sup | obl |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 came | nsubj |
| 25 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 inn | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 came | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 thinking | punct |
| 28 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 sup | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 causing | mark |
| 30 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 31 hunger | advmod |
| 31 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 causing | nsubj |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 poverty | cc |
| 33 | poverty | poverty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 hunger | conj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 causing | aux |
| 35 | causing | cause | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 thinking | ccomp |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 stranger | det |
| 37 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 trouble | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 stranger | case |
| 39 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 causing | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Father | father's best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cheer up | to-infinitive | Father not said here | the young man | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent man=Patient | ||||
| 3 | invite | past | Father not said here | man | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sup not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | the first inn | with father | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | come | past | feet = foot | the first inn not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location inn=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other | gerund | man not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 7 | cause | past · progressive | hunger and poverty | the stranger's trouble | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition trouble=Patient | ||||
| 8 | trouble | the stranger | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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