The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 81
“Comrade,” cried Friedlin indignantly, for he thought Peter did but jest with him, “it is ill done to mock at an unhappy man; you had better find someone else who will let himself be taken in with your fine promises.”
Who acts: Comrade, Peter, advice, you, your · What happens: cry, think, do, jest, be, mock · To what, where: someone, man · 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 (Comrade, Peter, advice, you), 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 | _ | 2 Comrade | punct |
| 2 | Comrade | comrade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Comrade | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Comrade | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Friedlin | Friedlin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | flat |
| 7 | indignantly | indignantly | ADV | _ | 5 cried | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 thought | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 thought | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 thought | nsubj |
| 11 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 12 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 did | nsubj |
| 13 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 thought | ccomp |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 jest | cc |
| 15 | jest | jest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 thought | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 jest | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ill | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 ill | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 ill | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 ill | cop |
| 22 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 jest | advcl |
| 23 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ill | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 mock | mark |
| 25 | mock | mock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 done | advcl |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 man | case |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 man | det |
| 28 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 man | amod |
| 29 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mock | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cried | parataxis |
| 33 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 had | xcomp |
| 34 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 had | xcomp |
| 35 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 34 find | obj |
| 36 | else | else | ADV | _ | 35 someone | advmod |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 let | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 let | aux |
| 39 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 someone | acl:relcl |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 42 taken | nsubj |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 taken | aux:pass |
| 42 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 let | xcomp |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 taken | compound:prt |
| 44 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 promises | case |
| 45 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 promises | nmod:poss |
| 46 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 promises | amod |
| 47 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 taken | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Comrade | indignantly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | Comrade | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | do | past | Peter | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | jest speech: other | infinitive | Comrade not said here | with Peter | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | advice | ill property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | participle | advice not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | mock in a quote | to-infinitive | advice not said here | at a unhappy man | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | have in a quote | past | you | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | find in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | someone | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Topic | ||||
| 10 | let in a quote | future | tree rules | ||||||
| 11 | take in in a quote | infinitive · passive | man | with your fine promises | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 12 | promise in a quote | your | nom promise «communication 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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