The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 23, sentence 39
Hastily the prince awoke his sister Lineik, and they agreed that their father must be dead, and that they must lose no time in obeying his orders and putting themselves in safety.
Who acts: Hastily, men, father, Prince · What happens: awake, agree, be, lose, obey, put · To what, where: sister, orders, men, safety
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 (Hastily, men, father, Prince), 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 | Hastily | Hastily | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | nsubj |
| 4 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 sister | nmod:poss |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 awoke | obj |
| 7 | Lineik | Lineik | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 sister | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 agreed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 agreed | cc |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 agreed | nsubj |
| 11 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 awoke | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 dead | mark |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dead | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 dead | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 dead | cop |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 agreed | advcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 lose | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lose | cc |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 lose | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 lose | nsubj |
| 22 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 lose | aux |
| 23 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 awoke | conj |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 time | det |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lose | obj |
| 26 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 27 obeying | mark |
| 27 | obeying | obey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 lose | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 orders | nmod:poss |
| 29 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 obeying | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 putting | cc |
| 31 | putting | put | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 obeying | conj |
| 32 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 putting | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 safety | case |
| 34 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 putting | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | Hastily | Prince's sister | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location sister=Theme | ||||
| 2 | agree speech: agree | past | men = man | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | must | men's father | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lose | must | men = man | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | obey | gerund | men = man not said here | Prince's orders | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | ||||
| 6 | put | gerund | men = man not said here | men = man | safety | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme in safety=Destination | |||
| 7 | order | Prince | nom order «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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