The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 19, sentence 95
Death stepped across the narrow line that surrounds the Land of Immortality, and the queen proposed the wager which was to decide the prince’s fate.
Who acts: Death, narrow line, queen, wager, prince · What happens: step, surround, propose, be, fate · To what, where: narrow line, Land, wager
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 (Death, narrow line, queen, wager), 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 | Death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | nsubj |
| 2 | stepped | step | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | across | across | ADP | _ | 6 line | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 line | det |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 line | amod |
| 6 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stepped | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 surrounds | nsubj |
| 8 | surrounds | surround | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 line | acl:relcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Land | det |
| 10 | Land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 surrounds | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Immortality | case |
| 12 | Immortality | immortality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Land | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 proposed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 proposed | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 proposed | nsubj |
| 17 | proposed | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 stepped | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wager | det |
| 19 | wager | wager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 proposed | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 decide | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 decide | cop |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 decide | mark |
| 23 | decide | decide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 wager | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prince | det |
| 25 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fate | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 prince | case |
| 27 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 decide | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stepped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | step | past | Death | the narrow line | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across line=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | surround | present | the narrow line | the Land of Immortality | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme land=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | propose | past | the queen | the wager | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wager=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | the wager | the wager not said here | decide property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fate | the prince | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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