The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 76
With much difficulty the youth put the heavy chest on his shoulders and carried it on board the ship, the princess walking by his side.
Who acts: youth, princess · What happens: put, carry, walk · To what, where: heavy chest, shoulders, chest, ship
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, princess), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 difficulty | case |
| 2 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 difficulty | amod |
| 3 | difficulty | difficulty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | nsubj |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chest | det |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chest | amod |
| 9 | chest | chest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 put | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 shoulders | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 shoulders | nmod:poss |
| 12 | shoulders | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 put | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 put | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 ship | case |
| 17 | board | board | ADP | _ | 19 ship | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 ship | det |
| 19 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 princess | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 princess | det |
| 22 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 ship | appos |
| 23 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 princess | acl |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 side | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 side | nmod:poss |
| 26 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walking | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | the youth | the heavy chest | youth's shoulders | with much difficulty | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent chest=Theme on shoulder=Destination | ||
| 2 | carry | past | the youth not said here | chest | the ship | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 3 | walk | gerund | the princess not said here | by youth's side | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by side=Trajectory |
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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