The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 55
“You did not sort those feathers alone,” answered the ogress calmly; “however, this time I will let that pass.”
Who acts: You, ogress, young man, that · What happens: not sort, answer, let, pass · To what, where: feathers, that · 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 (You, ogress, young man, that), 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 | _ | 5 sort | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sort | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sort | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 sort | advmod |
| 5 | sort | sort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 feathers | det |
| 7 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sort | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 5 sort | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 sort | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sort | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sort | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ogress | det |
| 13 | ogress | ogress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | calmly | calmly | ADV | _ | 11 answered | advmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 sort | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 let | punct |
| 17 | however | however | ADV | _ | 23 let | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 however | punct |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 let | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 let | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 let | aux |
| 23 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 sort | conj |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 let | obj |
| 25 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 let | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sort | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sort | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not sort in a quote | past · do-support | You | that feathers | alone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the ogress | calmly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | let in a quote | future | the young man = man | that | time | however property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | pass in a quote | infinitive | that not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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