The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 24, sentence 88
“The crow, who paid me a visit yesterday,” answered the magpie.
Who acts: crow, magpie · What happens: pay, answer · To what, where: magpie · 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 (crow, magpie), 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 | _ | 3 crow | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 crow | det |
| 3 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 paid | punct |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 paid | nsubj |
| 6 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 crow | acl:relcl |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 paid | obj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 visit | det |
| 9 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | obj |
| 10 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 paid | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 crow | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 crow | punct |
| 13 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 magpie | det |
| 15 | magpie | magpie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 answered | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pay in a quote | past | the crow | the magpie = magpie | yesterday | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient visit=Asset | |||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the magpie | vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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