The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 83
Everything seemed to turn to gold in his hands, till one day, when he and his son were sitting in the orchard watching their herds of cattle grazing in the meadows, he suddenly said: “Peter, my boy, it is time that you were thinking of marrying.”
Who acts: Everything, man, orchard, cattle, meadow, time · What happens: seem, turn, sit, watch, graze, say · To what, where: hands, orchard, herds, meadows, time · 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 (Everything, man, orchard, cattle), 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 | Everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 turn | mark |
| 4 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 gold | case |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 hands | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hands | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 turn | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 day | punct |
| 11 | till | till | ADP | _ | 13 day | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 day | nummod |
| 13 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 turn | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 sitting | punct |
| 15 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 21 sitting | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sitting | nsubj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 son | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 he | conj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 sitting | aux |
| 21 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 day | acl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 orchard | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 orchard | det |
| 24 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sitting | obl |
| 25 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 orchard | acl |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 herds | nmod:poss |
| 27 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 watching | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 cattle | case |
| 29 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 herds | nmod |
| 30 | grazing | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 cattle | acl |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 meadows | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 meadows | det |
| 33 | meadows | meadow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 grazing | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 said | punct |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 said | nsubj |
| 36 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 37 said | advmod |
| 37 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 seemed | parataxis |
| 38 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 40 Peter | punct |
| 39 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 40 Peter | punct |
| 40 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 said | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 boy | punct |
| 42 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 boy | nmod:poss |
| 43 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Peter | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 time | punct |
| 45 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 time | nsubj |
| 46 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 time | cop |
| 47 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 Peter | appos |
| 48 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 51 thinking | nsubj |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 51 thinking | nsubj |
| 50 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 51 thinking | aux |
| 51 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 47 time | acl:relcl |
| 52 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 53 marrying | mark |
| 53 | marrying | marry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 51 thinking | advcl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 Peter | punct |
| 55 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | Everything | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | turn | to-infinitive | Everything not said here | man's hands | day | to gold | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to gold=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | sit | past · progressive | man | the orchard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in orchard=Location | ||||
| 4 | watch | gerund | the orchard not said here | gardens's herds of cattle | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herd=Theme | ||||
| 5 | graze | gerund | cattle not said here | the meadows | vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | say speech: assert | past | man | suddenly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is a in a quote | present | meadow | time | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | think speech: other in a quote | past · progressive | time | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | marry in a quote | gerund | time not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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