The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 27, sentence 90
The young man found a pretty, brown-skinned girl who was willing to have him for a husband, and the whole village came to the wedding feast.
Who acts: young man, pretty skinned girl, whole village · What happens: find, be, have, come · To what, where: pretty skinned girl, man, wedding feast
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 (young man, pretty skinned girl, whole village), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 girl | det |
| 6 | pretty | pretty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pretty | punct |
| 8 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 skinned | amod |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 brown | punct |
| 10 | skinned | skinned | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | amod |
| 11 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 willing | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 willing | cop |
| 14 | willing | willing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 girl | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 have | mark |
| 16 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 willing | xcomp |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 have | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 husband | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 husband | det |
| 20 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 have | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 came | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 village | det |
| 24 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 village | amod |
| 25 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | conj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 feast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 feast | det |
| 29 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 feast | compound |
| 30 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the young man | a pretty skinned girl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is | past | a pretty skinned girl | willing property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | to-infinitive | a pretty skinned girl not said here | man | for a husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | |||
| 4 | come | past | the whole village | the wedding feast | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to feast=Initial_Location |
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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