The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 10
About eleven o’clock he thought he saw someone going to a rick and putting a light to it.
Who acts: eleven o’clock, o’clock · What happens: think, see, go, put · To what, where: someone, rick, light, swineherd · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (eleven o’clock, o’clock), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 eleven | advmod |
| 2 | eleven | eleven | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 o’clock | nummod |
| 3 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 saw | nsubj |
| 7 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 saw | obj |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 someone | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 rick | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rick | det |
| 12 | rick | rick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 going | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 putting | cc |
| 14 | putting | put | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 going | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 light | det |
| 16 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 putting | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 putting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | eleven o’clock | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | o’clock = o'clock | someone | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer someone=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | a rick | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to rick=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | put | gerund | a light | swineherd | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent light=Goal |
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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