The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 2, sentence 8

“Truly,” said the second crow; “for to-morrow, when midday strikes, the bridge over the Gold Stream will break just as they are driving over it.

Who acts: second crow, midday, Gold Stream, crows · What happens: say, strike, break, drive · To what, where: bridge, Stream · 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 (second crow, midday, Gold Stream, crows), 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	_	5 said	punct
2	Truly	truly	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Truly	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Truly	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 crow	det
7	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 crow	amod
8	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 strikes	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 strikes	punct
11	for	for	ADP	_	14 morrow	case
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 morrow	case
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 to	punct
14	morrow	morrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strikes	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 morrow	punct
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 strikes	advmod
17	midday	midday	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strikes	nsubj
18	strikes	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 bridge	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 bridge	det
21	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 strikes	obl
22	over	over	SCONJ	_	27 break	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Stream	det
24	Gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Stream	compound
25	Stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 break	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 break	aux
27	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 strikes	advcl
28	just	just	ADV	_	32 driving	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	32 driving	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 driving	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	32 driving	aux
32	driving	drive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 break	advcl
33	over	over	ADP	_	34 it	case
34	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 driving	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the second crow			truly property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	strike in a quote	present	midday	the bridge		for morrow	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	break in a quote	future	the Gold Stream				vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	drive in a quote	present · progressive	crows = crow		Stream		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over it=Trajectory

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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