The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 101
After a week of feasting, the fox said to the king: “My master wishes to take his young bride home to his own castle.”
Who acts: fox, master · What happens: say, wish, take · To what, where: king, young bride, own castle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fox, master), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 week | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 week | det |
| 3 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 feasting | case |
| 5 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 week | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 week | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 wishes | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wishes | punct |
| 15 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 master | nmod:poss |
| 16 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wishes | nsubj |
| 17 | wishes | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 take | mark |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wishes | ccomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bride | nmod:poss |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 bride | amod |
| 22 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 23 | home | home | ADV | _ | 19 take | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 castle | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 castle | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 castle | amod |
| 27 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 wishes | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 wishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the fox | the king | week | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wish in a quote | present | My master | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | fox's young bride | fox's own castle | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to castle=Destination |
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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