The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 25
Things were in this state when, one day, his wife said to him that it was time for him to make a progress through his kingdom and see that his governors were not cheating him of the money that was his due.
Who acts: Things, wife, state, governors, money · What happens: be, say, make, see, not cheat · To what, where: state, king, time, progress, kingdom · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Things, wife, state, governors), 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 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 state | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | cop |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 state | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 state | det |
| 5 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 day | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 state | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 time | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 time | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 time | cop |
| 19 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 time | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 make | mark |
| 23 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | advcl |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 progress | det |
| 25 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obj |
| 26 | through | through | ADP | _ | 28 kingdom | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 make | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 see | cc |
| 30 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 make | conj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 36 cheating | mark |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 governors | nmod:poss |
| 33 | governors | governor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 cheating | nsubj |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 cheating | aux |
| 35 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 36 cheating | advmod |
| 36 | cheating | cheat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 see | ccomp |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 cheating | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 money | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 money | det |
| 40 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 cheating | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 44 due | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 due | cop |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 due | nmod:poss |
| 44 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 40 money | acl:relcl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 state | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Things | this state | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | king's wife | king | day | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is a | past | state | time | for king | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | king's wife not said here | a progress | king's kingdom | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset progress=Product | |||
| 5 | see | infinitive | king's wife not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | not cheat | past · progressive | king's governors | king | of the money | vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source | |||
| 7 | is | past | the money | due property | 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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