The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 21, sentence 4
“Do not shoot, I pray you, noble prince,” cried the stork; “I have two little sons at home; they will die of hunger if I am not there to bring them food.”
Who acts: stork, sons · What happens: not shoot, pray, cry, have, die, not be · To what, where: you, two little sons, home, sons · 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 (stork, sons), 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 shoot | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 shoot | advmod |
| 4 | shoot | shoot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 cried | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pray | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 pray | nsubj |
| 7 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shoot | parataxis |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 pray | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 prince | punct |
| 10 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 prince | amod |
| 11 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pray | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 shoot | punct |
| 14 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stork | det |
| 16 | stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 cried | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 have | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 cried | parataxis |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 sons | nummod |
| 22 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sons | amod |
| 23 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 have | obj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 home | case |
| 25 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 sons | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 die | punct |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 die | nsubj |
| 28 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 die | aux |
| 29 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 have | parataxis |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 hunger | case |
| 31 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 die | obl |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 36 there | mark |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 there | nsubj |
| 34 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 there | cop |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 there | advmod |
| 36 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 29 die | advcl |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 bring | mark |
| 38 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 there | advcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 bring | obj |
| 40 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bring | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not shoot in a quote | infinitive · do-support | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | pray in a quote | present | the stork = stork | you | noble prince obl | tree rules | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | the stork | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the stork = stork | two little sons | home | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||
| 5 | die in a quote | future | sons = son | of hunger | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer | ||||
| 6 | not is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | the stork = stork | there property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | bring in a quote | to-infinitive | the stork = stork not said here | sons = son | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination food=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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