The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 48
He had hardly said the words when there they all were; and when the birds had brought all the feathers back again, Tritill, and Litill, and he, put them away in the pillows, as the ogress had bidden him.
Who acts: youth · What happens: say, bring, put away, bid · To what, where: words, birds, feathers, pillows, ogress · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youth), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | aux |
| 3 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 4 said | advmod |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 they | mark |
| 8 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 9 they | expl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 words | nmod |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 they | det |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 all | cop |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 brought | cc |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 brought | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 birds | det |
| 16 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 feathers | det:predet |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 feathers | det |
| 21 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 brought | obj |
| 22 | back | back | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 23 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 brought | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tritill | punct |
| 25 | Tritill | Tritill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Litill | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Litill | cc |
| 28 | Litill | Litill | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 put | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 put | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 put | nsubj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 he | punct |
| 33 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | parataxis |
| 34 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 put | obj |
| 35 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 put | advmod |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 pillows | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 pillows | det |
| 38 | pillows | pillow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 put | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 bidden | punct |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 44 bidden | mark |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 ogress | det |
| 42 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 bidden | nsubj:pass |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 bidden | aux |
| 44 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 put | conj |
| 45 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 bidden | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past · perfect | youth | the words feathers | hardly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the birds | again | Tritill obl; Litill obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination feather=Theme | |||
| 3 | put away | infinitive | youth | feathers = feather | the pillows | away property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in pillow=Destination | ||
| 4 | bid | past · perfect · passive | the ogress | tree rules |
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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