The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 103
“I am going to find a mourner,” answered the bear, and told his story.
Who acts: bear, story · What happens: go, find, answer, tell · To what, where: mourner · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bear, story), 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 | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 answered | ccomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 find | mark |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 going | xcomp |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mourner | det |
| 8 | mourner | mourner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
| 11 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bear | det |
| 13 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 answered | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 told | cc |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 answered | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 story | nmod:poss |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 told | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the bear = bear | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | the bear = bear not said here | a mourner | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mourner=Topic | ||||
| 3 | answer speech: assert | past | the bear | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past | fox's story | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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