The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 22
“Your Majesty,” they said, “we think it our duty to tell you that your new companion has boasted to us that if he were only your steward he would not lose a single grain of corn out of the storehouses.
Who acts: Majesty, we, king · What happens: say, think, tell, boast, be, not lose · To what, where: Majesty, you, new companion, us, steward, single grain · 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 (Majesty, we, king), 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 | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 Majesty | nmod:poss |
| 3 | Majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Majesty | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 think | punct |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 think | nsubj |
| 11 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | ccomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 think | obj |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 duty | nmod:poss |
| 14 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 think | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 tell | mark |
| 16 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 think | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 tell | iobj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 boasted | mark |
| 19 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 companion | nmod:poss |
| 20 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 companion | amod |
| 21 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 boasted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 boasted | aux |
| 23 | boasted | boast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 tell | ccomp |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 us | case |
| 25 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 boasted | obl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 32 steward | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 steward | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 steward | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 steward | cop |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 32 steward | advmod |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 steward | nmod:poss |
| 32 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 boasted | advcl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 lose | nsubj |
| 34 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 lose | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 lose | advmod |
| 36 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 steward | acl:relcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 grain | det |
| 38 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 grain | amod |
| 39 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 lose | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 corn | case |
| 41 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 grain | nmod |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 45 storehouses | case |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 45 storehouses | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 storehouses | det |
| 45 | storehouses | storehouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 corn | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Your Majesty | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other in a quote | present | we | Majesty | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Theme duty=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | boast speech: other in a quote | present · perfect · passive | your new companion | us | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | king | your steward | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | not lose in a quote | would | king | a single grain of corn out the storehouses | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Eventuality |
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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