The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 78

Here he found a pretty stream which was different from other streams as, instead of flowing, it stood still and began to talk: “Sir prince, tell me what brings you into these wilds?

Who acts: Luck, pretty stream, Stream, Sir prince · What happens: find, be, flow, stand, begin, talk · To what, where: pretty stream, other streams, Sir prince, you, wilds · 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 (Luck, pretty stream, Stream, Sir prince), 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stream	det
5	pretty	pretty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stream	amod
6	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 different	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 different	cop
9	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stream	amod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 streams	case
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 streams	amod
12	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 different	obl
13	as	as	ADV	_	9 different	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flowing	punct
15	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	17 flowing	mark
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 instead	fixed
17	flowing	flow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 found	advcl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 stood	nsubj
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 found	conj
21	still	still	ADV	_	20 stood	advmod
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 began	cc
23	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 stood	conj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 talk	mark
25	talk	talk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 began	xcomp
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	31 tell	punct
27	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 prince	punct
28	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 prince	compound
29	prince	prince	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tell	nsubj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 prince	punct
31	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 found	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 tell	iobj
33	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	34 brings	nsubj
34	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 tell	ccomp
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	34 brings	obj
36	into	into	ADP	_	38 wilds	case
37	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	38 wilds	det
38	wilds	wild	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 brings	obl
39	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Luck	a pretty stream		here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stream=Topic
2	is	past	a pretty stream			other streams		different property	tree rules
3	flow	gerund	Luck not said here						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	stand	past	Stream				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	begin	past	Stream not said here						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	talk	to-infinitive	Stream not said here						vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive	Sir prince		Sir prince = prince				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
8	bring in a quote	present		you		this wilds			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into wild=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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