The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 102
“I am not dumb,” replied the young man, “but I am that unhappy prince whose faithful servant has been turned to stone, and I want to know how to help him.”
Who acts: dumb · What happens: not be, reply, be, turn, want, know · To what, where: young man, unhappy prince, stone, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dumb), 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 | _ | 5 dumb | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 dumb | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dumb | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 dumb | advmod |
| 5 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 dumb | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 dumb | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 turned | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 prince | cc |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 prince | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 prince | cop |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 prince | mark |
| 18 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prince | amod |
| 19 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 servant | nmod:poss |
| 21 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 servant | amod |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 turned | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 turned | aux:pass |
| 25 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl:relcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 stone | case |
| 27 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 turned | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 want | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 want | cc |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 want | nsubj |
| 31 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | advcl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 know | mark |
| 33 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 want | xcomp |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 help | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 help | mark |
| 36 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 know | ccomp |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 help | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is in a quote | present | dumb | dumb property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | dumb | the young man | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent man=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | dumb | unhappy prince | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | turn in a quote | present · perfect · passive | unhappy prince | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme to stone=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | dumb | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | know not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | dumb not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | help in a quote | to-infinitive | man | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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