The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 20, sentence 85
“Please give me my arrow,” said the prince, running up to him; but the gold-bearded man answered:
Who acts: prince, bearded man · What happens: give, say, run up, answer · To what, where: arrow, prince, boy · 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 (prince, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 give | discourse |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 arrow | nmod:poss |
| 6 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 prince | det |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 running | punct |
| 13 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 said | advcl |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 running | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 running | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 answered | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 answered | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 bearded | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 gold | punct |
| 22 | bearded | bearded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 answered | nsubj |
| 24 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | parataxis |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 24 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | my arrow | the prince = prince | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient arrow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the prince | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | run up | gerund | the prince not said here | boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to he=Result | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert | past | the bearded man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=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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