The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 63
Not long ago my master went on a journey, and brought back with him, amongst other treasures, the portrait of a fair maiden so sweet and lovely that I lost my heart at first sight of it, and could think of nothing but how I might seek her out and marry her.
Who acts: master, I · What happens: go, bring back, lose, think, seek out, marry · To what, where: journey, other treasures, heart, sight, dame, fair maiden
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 (master, I), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 ago | advmod |
| 3 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 6 went | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 master | nmod:poss |
| 5 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | nsubj |
| 6 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 went | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 brought | cc |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | conj |
| 13 | back | back | ADV | _ | 12 brought | advmod |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 treasures | punct |
| 17 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 19 treasures | case |
| 18 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 treasures | amod |
| 19 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 brought | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 portrait | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 portrait | det |
| 22 | portrait | portrait | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 treasures | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 maiden | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 maiden | det |
| 25 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maiden | amod |
| 26 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 portrait | nmod |
| 27 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 sweet | advmod |
| 28 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 maiden | amod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 lovely | cc |
| 30 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sweet | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 lost | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 lost | nsubj |
| 33 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 sweet | advcl |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 heart | nmod:poss |
| 35 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lost | obj |
| 36 | at | at | ADP | _ | 38 sight | case |
| 37 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 38 sight | advmod |
| 38 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 lost | obl |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 it | case |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 sight | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 think | punct |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 think | cc |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 think | aux |
| 44 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 went | parataxis |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 46 nothing | case |
| 46 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 44 think | obl |
| 47 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 51 seek | cc |
| 48 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 51 seek | advmod |
| 49 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 51 seek | nsubj |
| 50 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 51 seek | aux |
| 51 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 think | conj |
| 52 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 seek | obj |
| 53 | out | out | ADP | _ | 51 seek | compound:prt |
| 54 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 55 marry | cc |
| 55 | marry | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 seek | conj |
| 56 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 55 marry | obj |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | my master | a journey | ago property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on journey=Location | |||
| 2 | bring back | past | my master not said here | other treasures | with master | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | |||
| 3 | lose | past | I | my heart | sight of sight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | think speech: other | could | of nothing | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | seek out | might | I | dame | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 6 | marry | infinitive | I not said here | dame | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient | ||||
| 7 | portray | a fair maiden | nom portrait «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | sight | sight | nom sight «cognition 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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