The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 14
Peter then told her the whole story, and of his striking the flames with the three napkins as he had been told to do.
Who acts: Peter · What happens: tell, strike, do · To what, where: whole story, woman, flames, Peter · 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 (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 | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 told | advmod |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 story | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 story | amod |
| 7 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 striking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 striking | cc |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 striking | mark |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 striking | nsubj |
| 12 | striking | strike | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 told | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flames | det |
| 14 | flames | flame | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 striking | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 napkins | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 napkins | det |
| 17 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 napkins | nummod |
| 18 | napkins | napkin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 striking | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 told | mark |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 told | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 told | aux |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 told | aux:pass |
| 23 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 striking | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 told | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Peter | the whole story | woman | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient story=Topic | ||
| 2 | strike | gerund | Peter | the flames | with the three napkins | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent flame=Patient with napkin=Instrument | |||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | Peter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | Peter not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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