The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 32
“When I served the king’s chief herdsman,” added he, “I saw his daughter, and I am resolved to try if I cannot win her for my wife.”
Who acts: I · What happens: serve, add, see, resolve, try, not win · To what, where: chief herdsman, herdsman, daughter, I, cunning · 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 (I), 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 | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 2 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 served | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 served | nsubj |
| 4 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 added | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 herdsman | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 king | case |
| 8 | chief | chief | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 herdsman | amod |
| 9 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 served | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 served | punct |
| 12 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 added | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 added | conj |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 resolved | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 resolved | cc |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 resolved | nsubj |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 resolved | aux:pass |
| 24 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 saw | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 try | mark |
| 26 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 resolved | xcomp |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 win | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 win | nsubj |
| 29 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 win | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 win | advmod |
| 31 | win | win | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 try | advcl |
| 32 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 win | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 wife | case |
| 34 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 wife | nmod:poss |
| 35 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 win | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve in a quote | past | I | the king's chief herdsman | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herdsman=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | past | herdsman | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | past | I | herdsman's daughter | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | resolve in a quote | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | try in a quote | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 6 | not win a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | I | cunning | for my wife | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent she=Theme for wife=Beneficiary |
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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