The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 119
When he reached the stream it asked if he brought it any good news.
Who acts: miller, Stream · What happens: reach, ask, bring · To what, where: stream
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 (miller, Stream), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 stream | det |
| 5 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 asked | nsubj |
| 7 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 brought | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | any | any | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 news | amod |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | miller | the stream | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent stream=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Stream | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | bring a condition, not said to happen | past | miller | Stream | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument it=Theme news=Destination |
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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