The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 78
“We have run through our fortune,” said Abu Nowas, “what are we to do now?
Who acts: We, Abu · What happens: have, run, say, be, do · To what, where: fortune · 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 (We, 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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 have | xcomp |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 fortune | case |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 fortune | nmod:poss |
| 7 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 run | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Abu | flat |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 what | punct |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 what | cop |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 what | nsubj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 do | mark |
| 19 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 what | acl |
| 20 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 do | advmod |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | We | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run in a quote | participle | We not said here | our fortune | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through fortune=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Abu | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | Abu not said here | now | 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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