The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 83
He turned away sadly and wandered back into the streets, hardly knowing where he was going; when a voice behind him cried: “Stop, prince, I have caught you at last!
Who acts: prince, voice · What happens: turn away, wander back, know, go, cry, stop · To what, where: streets, prince, voice, last · 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, voice), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 turned | nsubj |
| 2 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | away | away | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 4 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 2 turned | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wandered | cc |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 6 wandered | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 streets | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 streets | det |
| 10 | streets | street | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wandered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 knowing | punct |
| 12 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 13 knowing | advmod |
| 13 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 wandered | advcl |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 going | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 going | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 going | aux |
| 17 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 knowing | ccomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 cried | punct |
| 19 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 cried | advmod |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 voice | det |
| 21 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cried | nsubj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 voice | nmod |
| 24 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 turned | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stop | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 27 Stop | punct |
| 27 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 cried | parataxis |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 prince | punct |
| 29 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 Stop | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 caught | punct |
| 31 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 caught | aux |
| 33 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 Stop | conj |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 caught | obj |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 last | case |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 caught | obl |
| 37 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn away | past | prince | away, sadly property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wander back | past | prince not said here | the streets | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into street=Destination | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | prince not said here | hardly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past · progressive | prince | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | cry speech: express | past | a voice behind prince | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | stop in a quote | infinitive | prince | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality prince=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a voice behind prince = voice | last | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary you=Theme |
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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