The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 35
“What shall we eat now, my friends, as there is no more man?”
Who acts: we · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: friends, more man
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 (we), 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 | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 eat | obj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | nsubj |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 eat | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 friends | punct |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 friends | nmod:poss |
| 9 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eat | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 man | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 13 is | mark |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 man | cop |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 man | det |
| 15 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 man | amod |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eat | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | shall | we | my friends | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | no more man | 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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