The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 33
This time World’s-weight heard also, and he said, “Ah, now our master is really calling.”
Who acts: weight, master · What happens: hear, say, call · To what, where: World’s weight · 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 (weight, master), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 weight | nsubj |
| 3 | World’s | World's | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 weight | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 World’s | punct |
| 5 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 weight | acl |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 6 heard | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 weight | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 calling | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 calling | punct |
| 14 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 21 calling | discourse |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ah | punct |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 calling | advmod |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 master | nmod:poss |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 calling | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 calling | aux |
| 20 | really | really | ADV | _ | 21 calling | advmod |
| 21 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 said | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 calling | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 weight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | participle | World’s weight not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | weight | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | call in a quote | present · progressive | our master | now | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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