The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 50
“On our journey home,” he said, “we spent the first night at an inn.
Who acts: servant, we, our · What happens: say, spend, journey · To what, where: journey, inn · 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, we, our), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 journey | case |
| 3 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 journey | nmod:poss |
| 4 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 journey | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 journey | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 journey | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 spent | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 spent | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 spent | nsubj |
| 13 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 night | det |
| 15 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 16 night | amod |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spent | obj |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 inn | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 inn | det |
| 19 | inn | inn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 spent | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | servant | our journey | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spend in a quote | past | we | a inn | night | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | journey in a quote | our | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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