The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 52
And then he went on to tell what the crows had said, and as he spoke he turned to stone up to his knees.
Who acts: servant · What happens: go on, tell, say, speak, turn up · To what, where: crows, stone · 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), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 went | cc |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 went | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 tell | mark |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 went | xcomp |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 said | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 crows | det |
| 10 | crows | crow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 said | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | aux |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 spoke | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 spoke | nsubj |
| 17 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 turned | advcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 stone | mark |
| 21 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 19 turned | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 knees | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 knees | nmod:poss |
| 25 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 turned | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go on | past | servant | then | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | servant not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the crows | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme what=Manner | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other | past | servant | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | turn up | past | servant | stone | to servant's knees | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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