The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 58
With the earliest streaks of dawn the gold-bearded man appeared, and filled his pail as before.
Who acts: bearded man · What happens: appear, fill · To what, where: pail
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 (bearded man), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 4 streaks | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 streaks | det |
| 3 | earliest | early | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 streaks | amod |
| 4 | streaks | streak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 appeared | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 dawn | case |
| 6 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 streaks | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 8 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bearded | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 gold | punct |
| 10 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 man | amod |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 appeared | nsubj |
| 12 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 filled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 filled | cc |
| 15 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 appeared | conj |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pail | nmod:poss |
| 17 | pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 filled | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 before | case |
| 19 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 filled | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the bearded man | with the earliest streaks of dawn | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fill | past | the bearded man not said here | man's pail | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent pail=Patient |
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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