The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 118
One day the stone-cutter carried a gravestone to the house of a rich man, and saw there all sorts of beautiful things, of which he had never even dreamed.
Who acts: stone cutter, Cutter · What happens: carry, see, not dream, sort · To what, where: gravestone, house, sorts, beautiful things
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (stone cutter, Cutter), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cutter | det |
| 4 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cutter | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 stone | punct |
| 6 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | nsubj |
| 7 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 gravestone | det |
| 9 | gravestone | gravestone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carried | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 house | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saw | cc |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carried | parataxis |
| 20 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 saw | advmod |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 sorts | det |
| 22 | sorts | sort | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 saw | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 things | case |
| 24 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 things | amod |
| 25 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 sorts | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 dreamed | punct |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 dreamed | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 dreamed | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 dreamed | aux |
| 31 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 33 dreamed | advmod |
| 32 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 dreamed | advmod |
| 33 | dreamed | dream | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 saw | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the stone cutter | a gravestone | the house of a rich man | day | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent gravestone=Theme to house=Destination | ||
| 2 | see | past | all sorts of beautiful things | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sort=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | not dream | past · perfect | Cutter | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sort | beautiful things | nom sort «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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