The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 62
“I am,” said he, “a crossbow-man in the service of a noble count, in whose castle I was brought up.
Who acts: man · What happens: say, bring up, service · To what, where: man, noble count · 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 (man), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 am | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 am | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 man | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 man | det |
| 11 | crossbow | crossbow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 crossbow | punct |
| 13 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 service | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 service | det |
| 16 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 count | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 count | det |
| 19 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 count | amod |
| 20 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 service | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 castle | punct |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 castle | case |
| 23 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 castle | nmod:poss |
| 24 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 man | conj |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 brought | aux:pass |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 castle | acl:relcl |
| 28 | up | up | ADP | _ | 27 brought | compound:prt |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | bring up in a quote | past · passive | man | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 3 | service in a quote | a noble count | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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