The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 103
“Then give me a proof of it,” cried his master.
Who acts: master · What happens: give, cry, proof · To what, where: proof, master · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | iobj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 proof | det |
| 6 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 it | case |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 proof | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 master | nmod:poss |
| 13 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | infinitive | a proof of proof | sun's master = master | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient proof=Theme | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | sun's master | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | proof in a quote | proof | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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