The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 74
“I will take him,” answered the maiden; and as Abu Nowas made no objection, it was all arranged.
Who acts: maiden, Abu · What happens: take, answer, make, arrange · To what, where: Sultana, objection · 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 (maiden, Abu), 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 | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 take | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 maiden | det |
| 10 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 made | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 made | mark |
| 14 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 made | nsubj |
| 15 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Abu | flat |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | parataxis |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 objection | det |
| 18 | objection | objection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arranged | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 arranged | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 arranged | aux:pass |
| 22 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 arranged | advmod |
| 23 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 made | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take in a quote | future | the maiden = maiden | Sultana | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | the maiden | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | Abu | no objection | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent objection=Product | ||||
| 4 | arrange | past · passive | objection | all property | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
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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