The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 88
But they did not know how quickly Death could fly, and the prince had only one foot across the border, when he felt the other grasped from behind, and the voice of Death calling: “Halt! now you are mine.”
Who acts: eagles, Death, prince, other, voice, you · What happens: not know, fly, have, feel, grasp, call · To what, where: one foot, border, other, Halt, voice · 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 (eagles, Death, prince, other), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 know | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 know | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 know | advmod |
| 5 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 fly | advmod |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 6 how | advmod |
| 8 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fly | nsubj |
| 9 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 fly | aux |
| 10 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 know | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 had | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 prince | det |
| 14 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 know | parataxis |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 17 one | advmod |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 foot | nummod |
| 18 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obj |
| 19 | across | across | ADP | _ | 21 border | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 border | det |
| 21 | border | border | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 felt | punct |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 felt | advmod |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 felt | nsubj |
| 25 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 other | det |
| 27 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 felt | obj |
| 28 | grasped | grasp | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 felt | xcomp |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 behind | case |
| 30 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 28 grasped | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 calling | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 calling | cc |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 voice | det |
| 34 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 calling | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Death | case |
| 36 | Death | Death | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 voice | nmod |
| 37 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 know | advcl |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 Halt | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Halt | punct |
| 40 | Halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 calling | obj |
| 41 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 40 Halt | punct |
| 42 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 37 calling | advmod |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 mine | nsubj |
| 44 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 mine | cop |
| 45 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 calling | ccomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | eagles = eagle | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | fly | could | Death | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have | past | the prince | one foot | the border | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient | |||
| 4 | feel | past | prince | the other | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grasp | participle | the other not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | call speech: express | gerund | the voice of Death | Halt | now | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent halt=Recipient | |||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | you | the voice of Death = voice | 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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