The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 19
“One cannot wail properly in this cave,” he said, “it is much too damp.
Who acts: One, fox, cave · What happens: not wail, say, be · To what, where: cave · 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 (One, fox, cave), 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 wail | punct |
| 2 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wail | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 wail | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 wail | advmod |
| 5 | wail | wail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 5 wail | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 cave | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 cave | det |
| 9 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wail | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wail | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 wail | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 damp | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 damp | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 damp | nsubj |
| 17 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 damp | cop |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 20 damp | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 damp | advmod |
| 20 | damp | damp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not wail in a quote | can | One | this cave | properly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | cave | damp 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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