The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 64
The count had told me her name, and where she lived, but laughed at my love, and absolutely refused to give me leave to go in search of her, so I was forced to run away from the castle by night.
Who acts: dame, I, my · What happens: tell, live, laugh, refuse, not give, leave · To what, where: count, me, love, search, I, castle · 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 (dame, I, my), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 count | det |
| 2 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | aux |
| 4 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 told | iobj |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 name | nmod:poss |
| 7 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 lived | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lived | cc |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 lived | advmod |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 told | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 laughed | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 laughed | cc |
| 15 | laughed | laugh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 lived | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 love | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 love | nmod:poss |
| 18 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laughed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 refused | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 refused | cc |
| 21 | absolutely | absolutely | ADV | _ | 22 refused | advmod |
| 22 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 laughed | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 give | mark |
| 24 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 refused | xcomp |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 give | iobj |
| 26 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 give | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 go | mark |
| 28 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 leave | xcomp |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 search | case |
| 30 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 go | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 her | case |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 search | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 forced | punct |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 37 forced | advmod |
| 35 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 forced | nsubj:pass |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 forced | aux:pass |
| 37 | forced | force | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 refused | conj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 run | mark |
| 39 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 forced | xcomp |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 39 run | advmod |
| 41 | from | from | ADP | _ | 43 castle | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 castle | det |
| 43 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 run | obl |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 45 night | case |
| 45 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 run | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the count | me | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | live | past | dame | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | laugh | past | dame not said here | my love | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | refuse | past | absolutely property | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | not give | to-infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | leave | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | go | to-infinitive | search of dame | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in search=Location | |||||
| 8 | force | past · passive | I | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | run away | to-infinitive | I not said here | the castle | night | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from castle=Trajectory | ||
| 10 | name | dame | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | search | dame | nom search «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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