The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 55
So Peter perceived that what ailed his guest was sorrow of heart, and asked him kindly to tell him his story.
Who acts: Peter, guest · What happens: perceive, ail, be, ask, tell · To what, where: sorrow, guest, story · 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 (Peter, guest), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 perceived | advmod |
| 2 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 perceived | nsubj |
| 3 | perceived | perceive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 ailed | mark |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 ailed | nsubj |
| 6 | ailed | ail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | ccomp |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 guest | nmod:poss |
| 8 | guest | guest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorrow | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 sorrow | cop |
| 10 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ailed | ccomp |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 heart | case |
| 12 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sorrow | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 asked | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 asked | cc |
| 15 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 perceived | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 asked | iobj |
| 17 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 15 asked | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 tell | mark |
| 19 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 asked | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 tell | iobj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 story | nmod:poss |
| 22 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 tell | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 perceived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | past | Peter | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | ail | past | vn pain-40.8.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | Peter's guest | sorrow | of heart | tree rules | |||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | past | Peter not said here | guest | kindly property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | tell speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | Peter's story | guest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic |
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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