The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18, sentence 76
“But it is now evening, and I need work no more to-day.
Who acts: tree, king · What happens: be, need · To what, where: evening, work
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 18. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, king), 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 evening | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 evening | cc |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 evening | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 evening | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 evening | advmod |
| 6 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 need | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 evening | conj |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| 12 | no | no | ADV | _ | 13 more | advmod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 need | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 day | case |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 to | punct |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 more | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 evening | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tree | evening | now | tree rules | |||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | the king of the eagles = king | work | tree rules |
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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