The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 100

But the boy heard, and consulted his bones, which said: “Take the red coverlet from your father’s bed, and put yours on his,” and so he did.

Who acts: boy, bones · What happens: hear, consult, say, take, put, do · To what, where: bones, red coverlet, bed, yours · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (boy, bones), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	4 heard	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heard	nsubj
4	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 consulted	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 consulted	cc
7	consulted	consult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bones	nmod:poss
9	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 consulted	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
11	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bones	acl:relcl
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	15 Take	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 Take	punct
15	Take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 said	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 coverlet	det
17	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 coverlet	amod
18	coverlet	coverlet	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Take	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	23 bed	case
20	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 father	nmod:poss
21	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bed	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 father	case
23	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 Take	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 put	cc
26	put	put	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	15 Take	parataxis
27	yours	your	PRON	Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
28	on	on	ADP	_	29 his	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 put	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 put	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 Take	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 did	cc
33	so	so	ADV	_	35 did	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 did	nsubj
35	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 heard	conj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	hear	past	the boy			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer
2	consult	past	the boy not said here	boy's bones		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	boy's bones			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take in a quote	infinitive		the red coverlet	your father's bed	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent coverlet=Theme from bed=Initial_Location
5	put in a quote	infinitive		yours		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent your=Asset his=Goal
6	do	past	boy			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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