The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 28, sentence 97
Now you must go to the Sultana, clothed in sackcloth and robes of mourning, and tell her that your husband, Abu Nowas, is dead, and you have no money for his burial.
Who acts: you, husband, Abu · What happens: go, clothe, tell, be, have, bury · To what, where: Sultana, wife, money · 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 (you, husband, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Sultana | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultana | det |
| 7 | Sultana | Sultana | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 clothed | punct |
| 9 | clothed | clothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 go | conj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 sackcloth | case |
| 11 | sackcloth | sackcloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 clothed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 robes | cc |
| 13 | robes | robe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sackcloth | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 mourning | case |
| 15 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 robes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 tell | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 tell | cc |
| 18 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | parataxis |
| 19 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 tell | iobj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 28 dead | mark |
| 21 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 dead | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 Abu | punct |
| 24 | Abu | Abu | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 husband | appos |
| 25 | Nowas | Nowas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 Abu | flat |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 husband | punct |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 dead | cop |
| 28 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 tell | advcl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 have | cc |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 have | nsubj |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 tell | parataxis |
| 33 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 34 money | det |
| 34 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 burial | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 burial | nmod:poss |
| 37 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 money | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | you | the Sultana | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sultana=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | clothe | participle | you not said here | in sackcloth and robes of mourning | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «Passive»: agent=Pivot in sackcloth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | infinitive | wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | is | present | your husband | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | present | you | no money | for Abu's burial | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient | |||
| 6 | bury | Abu | nom burial «event transitive»: poss=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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