The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 73
“Oh, my dear friend, I am so glad to see you,” cried he, “I must have slept a long while!”
Who acts: prince · What happens: be, see, cry, sleep · To what, where: you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (prince), 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 | _ | 11 glad | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 11 glad | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 friend | nmod:poss |
| 5 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 friend | amod |
| 6 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | iobj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 glad | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 glad | cop |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 11 glad | advmod |
| 11 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 cried | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 see | mark |
| 13 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 glad | xcomp |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 see | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 glad | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 glad | punct |
| 17 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 cried | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 slept | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 slept | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 slept | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 slept | aux |
| 23 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 slept | aux |
| 24 | slept | sleep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 cried | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 while | det |
| 26 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 while | amod |
| 27 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slept | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 24 slept | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | prince | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | prince not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | sleep in a quote | must · perfect | prince | while | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: 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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