The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 102
Then Subida took up a purse containing two hundred gold pieces, and said: “Your husband served us long and faithfully.
Who acts: Subida, purse, husband · What happens: take up, contain, say, serve · To what, where: purse, hundred gold pieces, us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Subida, purse, husband), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | Subida | Subida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 took | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 purse | det |
| 6 | purse | purse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 7 | containing | contain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 purse | acl |
| 8 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 hundred | compound |
| 9 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 pieces | nummod |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pieces | compound |
| 11 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 containing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 said | cc |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 served | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 served | punct |
| 17 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 husband | nmod:poss |
| 18 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 served | nsubj |
| 19 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 said | ccomp |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 served | obj |
| 21 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 served | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 faithfully | cc |
| 23 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 21 long | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take up | past | Subida | a purse | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purse=Theme | |||
| 2 | contain | gerund | a purse not said here | hundred gold pieces | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Subida not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | past | Your husband | us | long property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Attribute |
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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