The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 125
Peter thanked her for her counsel, and was careful to do exactly all the old woman had told him.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: thank, be, do, tell · To what, where: girl, old woman, Peter · 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 (Peter), 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 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thanked | obj |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 counsel | case |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thanked | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 careful | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 careful | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 careful | cop |
| 10 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thanked | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 careful | xcomp |
| 13 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 14 all | advmod |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 told | det:predet |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 woman | det |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 woman | amod |
| 17 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 told | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 told | aux |
| 19 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 do | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 told | iobj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thanked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Peter | girl | for girl's counsel | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for counsel=Attribute | |||
| 2 | is | past | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | the old woman | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient he=Topic |
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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