The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 117
“Now, my son, you must go,” cried the old woman “but first put these cakes and this napkin in your bag, where you can easily get at them.”
Who acts: you, old woman · What happens: go, cry, put, get · To what, where: son, cakes, bag · 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 (you, old woman), 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 | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 son | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 go | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 go | aux |
| 9 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 son | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 woman | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 woman | amod |
| 15 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cried | obj |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 put | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 put | cc |
| 18 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 19 put | advmod |
| 19 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 woman | acl:relcl |
| 20 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 cakes | det |
| 21 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 put | obj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 napkin | cc |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 napkin | det |
| 24 | napkin | napkin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 cakes | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 bag | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bag | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 put | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 get | punct |
| 29 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 33 get | advmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 get | nsubj |
| 31 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 get | aux |
| 32 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 33 get | advmod |
| 33 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 put | conj |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 get | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | must | you | my son not said here | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location son=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | the old woman | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | put in a quote | infinitive | the old woman not said here | this cakes and this napkin | your bag | first property | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cake=Theme in bag=Destination | ||
| 4 | get in a quote | can | you | at napkin; easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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