The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 133
“Hush!” whispered the fox, “do you see that crowd of armed men coming towards us?
Who acts: fox, you, armed men · What happens: whisper, see, come · To what, where: crowd · 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, you, armed men), 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 whispered | punct |
| 2 | Hush | hush | INTJ | _ | 5 whispered | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hush | punct |
| 5 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 whispered | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 see | punct |
| 10 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 see | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 see | nsubj |
| 12 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 whispered | conj |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 crowd | det |
| 14 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 see | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 men | case |
| 16 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 men | amod |
| 17 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 crowd | nmod |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 men | acl |
| 19 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 coming | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: ask | past | the fox | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | that crowd of armed men | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crowd=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | gerund | armed men not said here | towards us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards we=Initial_Location |
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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