The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 67
Before she sat down to eat the bullock’s heart she turned to the young man, and said: “You did not do that all alone, my friend; but, nevertheless, I will keep my word, and to-morrow you shall go your way.”
Who acts: Scarcely, You, my · What happens: sit down, eat, turn, say, not do, keep · To what, where: heart, all, word, way, morrow · 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 (Scarcely, You, my), 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 | Before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 sat | mark |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 sat | compound:prt |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 eat | mark |
| 6 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bullock | det |
| 8 | bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 bullock | case |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eat | obj |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 turned | nsubj |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 heart | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 man | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 said | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 said | cc |
| 19 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sat | conj |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 do | punct |
| 22 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 do | nsubj |
| 23 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 do | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 do | advmod |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 said | ccomp |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 all | mark |
| 27 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 do | obj |
| 28 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 all | amod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 friend | punct |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 friend | nmod:poss |
| 31 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 do | advcl |
| 32 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 keep | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 39 keep | cc |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 but | punct |
| 35 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 39 keep | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 nevertheless | punct |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 keep | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 keep | aux |
| 39 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sat | advcl |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 word | nmod:poss |
| 41 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 keep | obj |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 go | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 go | cc |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 46 morrow | case |
| 45 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 to | punct |
| 46 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 go | obl |
| 47 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 go | nsubj |
| 48 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 49 go | aux |
| 49 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 keep | conj |
| 50 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 way | nmod:poss |
| 51 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 go | obl:unmarked |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
| 53 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit down | past | Scarcely | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | Scarcely not said here | the bullock's heart | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | ||||
| 3 | turn | past | Scarcely | the bullock's heart not said here | to the young man result | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent heart=Theme to man=Result | |||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Scarcely not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | not do in a quote | past · do-support | You | all | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | keep in a quote | future | Scarcely | my word | nevertheless property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | |||
| 7 | go in a quote | shall | you | your way | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to morrow=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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