The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 26, sentence 64
“No, it is the real truth; come with me and I’ll prove it.”
Who acts: story, herdsman · What happens: be, come, prove · To what, where: real truth, story
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 (story, herdsman), 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 | _ | 8 truth | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 8 truth | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 truth | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 truth | cop |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 truth | det |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 truth | amod |
| 8 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 truth | parataxis |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 me | case |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 come | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prove | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 prove | nsubj |
| 15 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 prove | aux |
| 16 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | conj |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prove | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 come | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 truth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | story | the real truth | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | infinitive | with the herdsman = herdsman | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | prove in a quote | future | the herdsman = herdsman | story | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/26/64/