The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 7
“Stay with me, then, for I need a servant,” said the old woman.
Who acts: old woman · What happens: stay, need, say · To what, where: servant · 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 (old woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 2 | Stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Stay | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 Stay | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 need | punct |
| 8 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 10 need | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 need | nsubj |
| 10 | need | need | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Stay | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 servant | det |
| 12 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 need | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Stay | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 woman | det |
| 17 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 woman | amod |
| 18 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | nsubj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay in a quote | infinitive | then | with the old woman = woman | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with i=Location | ||||
| 2 | need in a quote | present | the old woman = woman | a servant | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot servant=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the old woman | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
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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