The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 11
It was she who had caused the disappearance of the courtiers, for which no one could account, by eating them during the night, and she hoped to get rid of all the people in the country, and then to fill the land with ogres and ogresses like herself.
Who acts: one, ogress, courtiers · What happens: cause, account, eat, hope, get, fill · To what, where: ship, courtiers, land · 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 (one, ogress, courtiers), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caused | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | aux:pass |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 caused | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | aux |
| 6 | caused | cause | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 disappearance | det |
| 8 | disappearance | disappearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 courtiers | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 courtiers | det |
| 11 | courtiers | courtier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 disappearance | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 account | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 account | obl |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 one | det |
| 16 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 account | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 account | aux |
| 18 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caused | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 eating | punct |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 eating | mark |
| 21 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 caused | advcl |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 eating | obj |
| 23 | during | during | ADP | _ | 25 night | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 night | det |
| 25 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 eating | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 hoped | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 hoped | cc |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 hoped | nsubj |
| 29 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 get | mark |
| 31 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 hoped | ccomp |
| 32 | rid | rid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 get | xcomp |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 people | case |
| 34 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 people | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 people | det |
| 36 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 rid | obl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 country | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 country | det |
| 39 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 people | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 fill | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 fill | cc |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 fill | advmod |
| 43 | to | to | PART | _ | 44 fill | mark |
| 44 | fill | fill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 caused | parataxis |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 land | det |
| 46 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 fill | obj |
| 47 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 ogres | case |
| 48 | ogres | ogre | NOUN | Number=Plur | 44 fill | obl |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 ogresses | cc |
| 50 | ogresses | ogress | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 ogres | conj |
| 51 | like | like | ADP | _ | 52 herself | case |
| 52 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 50 ogresses | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 caused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | past · perfect · passive | ship | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Theme disappearance=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | account | could | no one | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat | gerund | courtiers = courtier | night | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hope | past | ogress | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | get not said to happen | to-infinitive | rid property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | fill | to-infinitive | the land | then | with ogres and ogresses like ogress | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent land=Patient with ogre=Instrument | |||
| 7 | disappear | the courtiers | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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