The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 29, sentence 89

“I am coming, mother,” replied he; but first he took out his bones, and, crouching down on the ground behind the hut, asked them how he should escape the ogre.

Who acts: Motikatika · What happens: come, reply, take out, crouch down, ask, escape · To what, where: mother, bones, ground, ogre · 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 (Motikatika), 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 coming	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 coming	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 coming	aux
4	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 replied	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mother	punct
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coming	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 coming	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 coming	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 replied	nsubj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 took	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 took	cc
13	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 took	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 took	nsubj
15	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	parataxis
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 took	compound:prt
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 bones	nmod:poss
18	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 took	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crouching	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 crouching	cc
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 crouching	punct
22	crouching	crouch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 took	advcl
23	down	down	ADV	_	22 crouching	advmod
24	on	on	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crouching	obl
27	behind	behind	ADP	_	29 hut	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hut	det
29	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 crouching	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 asked	punct
31	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 took	conj
32	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 asked	obj
33	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 escape	advmod
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 escape	nsubj
35	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 escape	aux
36	escape	escape	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 asked	ccomp
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 ogre	det
38	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 escape	obj
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come in a quote	present · progressive	Motikatika	mother				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	reply speech: assert	past	Motikatika					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	take out	past	Motikatika	Motikatika's bones			first property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Theme
4	crouch down	gerund	Motikatika not said here			the ground	behind the hut; down property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
5	ask speech: ask	past	Motikatika not said here		bones = bone			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
6	escape	should	Motikatika	the ogre				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ogre=Initial_Location

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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