The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 30
They began to talk, and the prince told his story and sad fate.
Who acts: princes, prince · What happens: begin, talk, tell · To what, where: story · 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 (princes, prince), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 began | nsubj |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 talk | mark |
| 4 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 began | xcomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 told | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 told | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 prince | det |
| 8 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | nsubj |
| 9 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 began | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 story | nmod:poss |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 told | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fate | cc |
| 13 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fate | amod |
| 14 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 story | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | princes = prince | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | princes = prince not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | past | the prince | Man's story and sad fate | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |
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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