The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 105
But instead of food he only got hard words, and limped sadly away.
Who acts: beggar · What happens: get, limp · To what, where: hard words
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (beggar), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 got | cc |
| 2 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 4 food | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 2 instead | fixed |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 got | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 got | nsubj |
| 6 | only | only | ADV | _ | 7 got | advmod |
| 7 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 words | amod |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 got | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 limped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 limped | cc |
| 12 | limped | limp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 got | conj |
| 13 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 14 away | advmod |
| 14 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 limped | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | beggar | hard words | instead food | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | limp | past | beggar not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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