The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 22
He lifted her up and carried her to her bed, where she soon revived, but she did not tell Peter about Eisenkopf, who had been almost crushed to death under the hearth-stone by the body of World’s-weight.
Who acts: Peter, maiden, body · What happens: lift up, carry, revive, not tell, crush · To what, where: maiden, bed, Peter, hearth stone · 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, maiden, body), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | nsubj |
| 2 | lifted | lift | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lifted | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 lifted | compound:prt |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 carried | cc |
| 6 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 lifted | conj |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 carried | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 bed | case |
| 9 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 bed | nmod:poss |
| 10 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carried | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 revived | punct |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 revived | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 revived | nsubj |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 revived | advmod |
| 15 | revived | revive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carried | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tell | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 tell | cc |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 tell | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tell | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 tell | advmod |
| 21 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 lifted | conj |
| 22 | Peter | Peter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | iobj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 24 Eisenkopf | case |
| 24 | Eisenkopf | Eisenkopf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 tell | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 crushed | punct |
| 26 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 crushed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 crushed | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 crushed | aux:pass |
| 29 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 30 crushed | advmod |
| 30 | crushed | crush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 tell | advcl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 death | case |
| 32 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 crushed | obl |
| 33 | under | under | ADP | _ | 37 stone | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 stone | det |
| 35 | hearth | hearth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 stone | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 hearth | punct |
| 37 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 crushed | obl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 body | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 body | det |
| 40 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 crushed | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 weight | case |
| 42 | World’s | World's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 44 weight | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 World’s | punct |
| 44 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 body | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past | Peter | maiden | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | Peter not said here | maiden | maiden's bed | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bed=Destination | |||
| 3 | revive | past | maiden | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | maiden | Peter | about Eisenkopf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent peter=Recipient about eisenkopf=Topic | |||
| 5 | crush | past · perfect · passive | the body of World’s weight | the hearth stone | to death result; almost property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent subject=Patient to death=Result |
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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