The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 30
And the mountain spirit answered: “Your wish is heard; the rock you shall be!
Who acts: mountain spirit, Your · What happens: answer, hear, wish · To what, where: wish · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mountain spirit, Your), 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 | _ | 5 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 spirit | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spirit | compound |
| 4 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 7 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 8 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 wish | nmod:poss |
| 9 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 heard | aux:pass |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 answered | parataxis |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 rock | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rock | det |
| 14 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 heard | obl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 be | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 be | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 rock | acl:relcl |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the mountain spirit | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | hear in a quote | present · passive | Your wish | the rock obl | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wish in a quote | Your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: 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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