The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 37
But the servant said: “My lord, let me examine this carriage first and then you can get in if I find it is all right; otherwise we had better stay in our own.”
Who acts: servant, lord, you, carriage, we · What happens: say, let, examine, get in, find, be · To what, where: servant, carriage, own · 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 (servant, lord, you, carriage), 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 | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 7 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 let | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 lord | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 carriage | det |
| 14 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 examine | obj |
| 15 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 12 examine | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 get | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 get | advmod |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 get | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | aux |
| 20 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 get | obl |
| 22 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 get | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 right | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 right | cop |
| 27 | all | all | ADV | _ | 28 right | advmod |
| 28 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 find | ccomp |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 had | punct |
| 30 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 32 had | advmod |
| 31 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 had | nsubj |
| 32 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | parataxis |
| 33 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 32 had | xcomp |
| 34 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 better | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 own | case |
| 36 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 own | nmod:poss |
| 37 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 stay | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | My lord | the servant = servant | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | examine in a quote | infinitive | the servant = servant not said here | this carriage | first property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carriage=Theme | |||
| 4 | get in in a quote | can | you | then | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the servant = servant | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | carriage | all, right property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | have in a quote | past | we | good, otherwise property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 8 | stay in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | our own | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in own=Location |
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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