The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 17, sentence 92
And to this day, when the citizens wish to describe a wealthy man, they say: “As rich as Peter Bloch’s son-in-law!”
Who acts: citizens · What happens: wish, describe, say · To what, where: wealthy 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 (citizens), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 wish | cc |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wish | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 wish | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 citizens | det |
| 8 | citizens | citizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 wish | nsubj |
| 9 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 describe | mark |
| 11 | describe | describe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 wish | xcomp |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 describe | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 say | punct |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 say | nsubj |
| 17 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 wish | conj |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 21 rich | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 rich | punct |
| 20 | As | as | ADV | _ | 21 rich | advmod |
| 21 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 say | ccomp |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 26 son | case |
| 23 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Bloch | Bloch | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Peter | flat |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Peter | case |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rich | obl |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 law | punct |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 law | case |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 in | punct |
| 30 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 son | nmod |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 21 rich | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | present | the citizens | day | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | describe not said to happen | to-infinitive | the citizens not said here | a wealthy man | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent man=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | citizens = citizen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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