The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 7
One morning the heat was so great that the stone-cutter could scarcely breathe, and he determined he would stay at home till the evening.
Who acts: heat, stone cutter, cutter · What happens: be, breathe, determine, stay · To what, where: home
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 (heat, stone cutter, cutter), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 morning | nummod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 heat | det |
| 4 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 great | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 great | cop |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 great | advmod |
| 7 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 breathe | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cutter | det |
| 10 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cutter | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 stone | punct |
| 12 | cutter | cutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 breathe | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 breathe | aux |
| 14 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 15 breathe | advmod |
| 15 | breathe | breathe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 great | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 determined | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 determined | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 determined | nsubj |
| 19 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 breathe | conj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 stay | nsubj |
| 21 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 stay | aux |
| 22 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 determined | ccomp |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stay | obl |
| 25 | till | till | ADP | _ | 27 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 evening | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 stay | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 great | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heat | morning | great property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | breathe | could | the stone cutter | scarcely property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | determine | past | cutter | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | stay | would | cutter | home | evening | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at home=Location |
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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