The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 106
“Stop a moment,” cried the old woman again, just as he was mounting his horse, “take this napkin and this cake, and put them in your bag where you can get hold of them easily.”
Who acts: old woman, Peter, you · What happens: stop, cry, mount, take, put, get · To what, where: horse, napkin, bag, hold · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, Peter, you), 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 | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 2 | Stop | stop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Stop | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stop | punct |
| 7 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 woman | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 woman | amod |
| 10 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cried | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 cried | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 mounting | punct |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 mounting | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 mounting | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mounting | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mounting | aux |
| 17 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cried | advcl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 horse | nmod:poss |
| 19 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mounting | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 22 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 cried | parataxis |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 napkin | det |
| 24 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 take | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 cake | cc |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 cake | det |
| 27 | cake | cake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 napkin | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 put | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 put | cc |
| 30 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 take | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 put | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 bag | case |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 bag | nmod:poss |
| 34 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 put | obl |
| 35 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 get | advmod |
| 36 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 get | nsubj |
| 37 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 get | aux |
| 38 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 put | advcl |
| 39 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 get | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 them | case |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 hold | nmod |
| 42 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 38 get | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop in a quote | infinitive | moment | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the old woman | again | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | mount | past · progressive | Peter | Peter's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | this napkin and this cake | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent napkin=Theme | |||||
| 5 | put in a quote | infinitive | napkin | your bag | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in bag=Destination | ||||
| 6 | get in a quote | can | you | hold of napkin | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hold=Stimulus | |||
| 7 | hold in a quote | napkin | nom hold «act 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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