The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 13
“Now that you are rich and happy, you have no more need of me; but, before I go, there is one thing I must ask of you in return: when I die, promise me that you will give me a magnificent coffin, and bury me with due honours.”
Who acts: you, I, one thing · What happens: be, have, go, ask, die, promise · To what, where: more need, one thing, return, me, magnificent coffin · 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 (you, I, one thing), 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 | _ | 6 rich | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 rich | advmod |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 6 rich | mark |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 rich | nsubj |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rich | cop |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rich | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rich | conj |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 14 need | det |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 need | amod |
| 14 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 need | nmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 is | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 is | punct |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 go | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 go | nsubj |
| 22 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 is | advcl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 go | punct |
| 24 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 25 is | expl |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 rich | parataxis |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 thing | nummod |
| 27 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 ask | nsubj |
| 29 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 ask | aux |
| 30 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 thing | acl:relcl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 you | case |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 ask | obl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 return | case |
| 34 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 ask | obl |
| 35 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 promise | punct |
| 36 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 38 die | advmod |
| 37 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 die | nsubj |
| 38 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 promise | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 die | punct |
| 40 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 thing | appos |
| 41 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 40 promise | obj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 45 give | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 45 give | nsubj |
| 44 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 give | aux |
| 45 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 promise | ccomp |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 give | iobj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 49 coffin | det |
| 48 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 coffin | amod |
| 49 | coffin | coffin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 give | obj |
| 50 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 bury | punct |
| 51 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 bury | cc |
| 52 | bury | bury | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 40 promise | conj |
| 53 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 52 bury | obj |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 honours | case |
| 55 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 56 honours | amod |
| 56 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 bury | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 promise | punct |
| 58 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 promise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | you | now | rich property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be in a quote | you not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | you | no more need of me | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | present | one thing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | ask speech: ask in a quote | must | I | one thing not said here | return | of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||
| 7 | die in a quote | present | I | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 8 | promise speech: promise in a quote | infinitive | me | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | give in a quote | future | you | a magnificent coffin | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient coffin=Theme | |||
| 10 | bury in a quote | infinitive | me | with due honours | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 11 | need in a quote | me | nom need «state 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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