The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 18
“It is work we want,” they all answered.
Who acts: palace, we, soldiers · What happens: be, want, answer · To what, where: work · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (palace, we, soldiers), 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 | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 work | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | cop |
| 4 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 want | nsubj |
| 6 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 work | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 want | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 work | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 answered | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 answered | advmod |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | palace | work | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | we | work not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot work=Theme | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | soldiers = soldier | 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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