The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 44
“Yes; but this time you will have to do it properly,” said the herdsman; and he took the youth to the place where the pigs were feeding, and told him to drive them to the woods on the side of the mountain.
Who acts: you, herdsman, youth, pigs · What happens: have, do, say, take, feed, tell · To what, where: way, youth, place, pigs, side · 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, herdsman, youth, pigs), 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 | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 9 have | discourse |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 4 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 have | cc |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obl:unmarked |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 do | mark |
| 11 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 do | obj |
| 13 | properly | properly | ADV | _ | 11 do | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 herdsman | det |
| 18 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 said | obj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 took | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 took | cc |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 took | nsubj |
| 22 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 said | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 youth | det |
| 24 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 place | det |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 took | obl |
| 28 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 feeding | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 pigs | det |
| 30 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 feeding | nsubj |
| 31 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 feeding | aux |
| 32 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 place | acl:relcl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 told | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 told | cc |
| 35 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 took | conj |
| 36 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 told | iobj |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 drive | mark |
| 38 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 told | xcomp |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 drive | obj |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 woods | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 woods | det |
| 42 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 drive | obl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 side | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 side | det |
| 45 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 drive | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 mountain | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 mountain | det |
| 48 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 side | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | future | you | time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | way | properly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the herdsman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | take | past | youth | the youth | the place | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme to place=Destination | |||
| 5 | feed | past · progressive | the pigs | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | tell speech: assert | past | youth not said here | youth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | drive not said to happen | to-infinitive | youth not said here | pigs = pig | the side of the mountain | to the woods | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to wood=Destination on side=Initial_Location |
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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