The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 38
The prince made no objections, and after looking the carriage well over the servant said: “It is as bad as it is smart”; and with that he knocked it all to pieces, and they went on in the one that they had bought.
Who acts: prince, carriage, servant · What happens: make, look, say, be, knock, go on · To what, where: objections, carriage, servant, pieces, one · 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 (prince, carriage, servant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 objections | det |
| 5 | objections | objection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 said | cc |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 9 looking | mark |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 said | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 carriage | det |
| 11 | carriage | carriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obj |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 looking | advmod |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 servant | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 servant | det |
| 15 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looking | obl |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 17 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 bad | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bad | punct |
| 19 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 bad | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 bad | cop |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 bad | advmod |
| 22 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 smart | mark |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 smart | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 smart | cop |
| 26 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bad | advcl |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 bad | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 30 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 33 knocked | mark |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 knocked | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 knocked | nsubj |
| 33 | knocked | knock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 went | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 knocked | obj |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 it | det |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 pieces | case |
| 37 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 knocked | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 went | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 went | cc |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 went | nsubj |
| 41 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | conj |
| 42 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 went | compound:prt |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 one | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 one | det |
| 45 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 went | obl |
| 46 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 49 bought | nsubj:pass |
| 47 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 bought | nsubj |
| 48 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 bought | aux |
| 49 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 one | acl:relcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the prince | no objections | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the carriage | the servant | well property | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme carriage=Attribute | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the prince not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | carriage | bad property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | carriage | smart property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | knock | past | servant | carriage | pieces | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme to piece=Destination | |||
| 7 | go on | past | prince | in the one | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in one=Location | ||||
| 8 | buy | past · perfect · passive | the one | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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