The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 140
Count Piro’s,” answered the man, who did not know the king; and the king’s heart leapt as he thought that if they belonged to his rich son-in-law they were as good as his.
Who acts: you, Piro, man, creatures, son · What happens: count, answer, not know, think, belong, be · To what, where: heart leapt, man, king, law · 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 (you, Piro, man, creatures), 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 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 Piro | case |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Piro | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Piro | punct |
| 6 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 answered | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 know | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 know | nsubj |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 know | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 know | advmod |
| 13 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 man | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 king | det |
| 15 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 know | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 leapt | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 leapt | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leapt | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 king | case |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 leapt | compound |
| 22 | leapt | leapt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obl |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 thought | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 belonged | mark |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 belonged | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 belonged | nsubj |
| 29 | belonged | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 thought | ccomp |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 41 good | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 good | nmod:poss |
| 32 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 good | amod |
| 33 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 good | nsubj |
| 34 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 good | punct |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 law | case |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 in | punct |
| 37 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 good | obl |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 good | nsubj |
| 39 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 good | cop |
| 40 | as | as | ADV | _ | 41 good | advmod |
| 41 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 belonged | obl |
| 42 | as | as | ADP | _ | 43 his | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 good | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | the king's heart leapt | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Piro | the man | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent man=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | not know in a quote | past · do-support | the man | the king | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer king=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | think speech: other in a quote | past | Piro | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | belong a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | creatures = creature | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | is in a quote | past | son | law | 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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