The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 29
When they got to the bridge the servant said: “Let us leave the carriage here, my prince, and walk a little way.
Who acts: dreams, servant, us · What happens: get, say, let, leave, walk · To what, where: us, carriage, little way · 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 (dreams, servant, us), 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 | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 got | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 bridge | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bridge | det |
| 6 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 servant | det |
| 8 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Let | punct |
| 12 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 Let | obj |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | xcomp |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 carriage | det |
| 16 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 leave | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prince | punct |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 prince | nmod:poss |
| 20 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walk | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 walk | cc |
| 23 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 Let | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 way | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 way | amod |
| 26 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walk | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | dreams = dream | to the bridge result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to bridge=Result | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | leave in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | the carriage | here | my prince obl | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | ||
| 5 | walk in a quote | infinitive | a little way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory |
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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