The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 41
Michael, the fox, did not run away as the others had done, but smiled in a friendly manner, and remarked: “Things taste so stale in a valley; one’s appetite is so much better up on a mountain.”
Who acts: Michael, others, Things, one appetite · What happens: not run away, do, smile, remark, taste, be · To what, where: mountain · 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 (Michael, others, Things, one appetite), 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 | Michael | Michael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 run | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fox | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Michael | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Michael | punct |
| 6 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 run | advmod |
| 8 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | away | away | ADV | _ | 8 run | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 done | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 others | det |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 run | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 smiled | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 smiled | cc |
| 17 | smiled | smile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 manner | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 manner | det |
| 20 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 manner | amod |
| 21 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 smiled | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 remarked | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 remarked | cc |
| 24 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 done | conj |
| 25 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 taste | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 taste | punct |
| 27 | Things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 taste | nsubj |
| 28 | taste | taste | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 run | parataxis |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 30 stale | advmod |
| 30 | stale | stale | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 taste | xcomp |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 valley | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 valley | det |
| 33 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 stale | obl |
| 34 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 better | punct |
| 35 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 appetite | nummod |
| 36 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 35 one | case |
| 37 | appetite | appetite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 better | nsubj |
| 38 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 better | cop |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 much | advmod |
| 40 | much | much | ADV | _ | 41 better | advmod |
| 41 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 run | parataxis |
| 42 | up | up | ADP | _ | 41 better | compound:prt |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 mountain | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 mountain | det |
| 45 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 better | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 run | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not run away | past · do-support | Michael | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | the others | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | smile | past | in a friendly manner | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in manner=Theme | |||||
| 4 | remark speech: assert | participle | the others not said here | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | taste in a quote | present | Things | stale property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | is in a quote | present | one appetite | a mountain | good 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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