The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 54
But the servant paid no heed to him, and by the time his story was done he had turned to stone from head to foot.
Who acts: servant, time · What happens: pay, do, turn · To what, where: heed, king, story, head
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, time), 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 paid | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 servant | det |
| 3 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | nsubj |
| 4 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 heed | det |
| 6 | heed | heed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paid | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 him | case |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 paid | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 turned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 turned | cc |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 story | nmod:poss |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux:pass |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 time | acl:relcl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 turned | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | aux |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 paid | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 23 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 head | case |
| 24 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 foot | case |
| 26 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 paid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay | past | the servant | no heed | king | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset | |||
| 2 | do | past · passive | the time not said here | servant's story | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | turn | past · perfect | servant | head | time | to stone; to foot | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme to stone=Source from head=Trajectory to foot=Destination |
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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