The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 25, sentence 96
“My master, Count Piro, sends you these pears,” he said, “and asks for an answer to his proposal.”
Who acts: master, Piro · What happens: count, send, say, ask, propose · To what, where: pears, you · 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 (master, Piro), 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 Count | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 master | nmod:poss |
| 3 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Count | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 master | punct |
| 5 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 6 | Piro | Piro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 sends | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Piro | punct |
| 8 | sends | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Count | parataxis |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 sends | obj |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 pears | det |
| 11 | pears | pear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sends | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Count | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Count | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 said | nsubj |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 asks | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 asks | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 asks | cc |
| 19 | asks | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 said | ccomp |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 answer | case |
| 21 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 answer | det |
| 22 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asks | obl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 proposal | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 proposal | nmod:poss |
| 25 | proposal | proposal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 asks | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 asks | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 asks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count in a quote | infinitive | My master | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | send in a quote | present | Piro | this pears | you | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Destination pear=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Piro | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask in a quote | present | for a answer; to Piro's proposal | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | propose in a quote | Piro | nom proposal «communication intransitive»: poss=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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