The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 34
The old man also gave him a silver apple out of which came the most beautiful hussars and a silver staff; and a copper apple from which he could draw as many foot soldiers as ever he wished, and a copper staff.
Who acts: old man, silver apple, Man · What happens: give, come, draw, wish · To what, where: silver apple, horse, beautiful hussars, many foot soldiers, copper apple
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 (old man, silver apple, Man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 man | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 man | amod |
| 3 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 5 gave | advmod |
| 5 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gave | iobj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 apple | det |
| 8 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 apple | compound |
| 9 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obj |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 came | nsubj |
| 13 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 apple | acl:relcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 hussars | det |
| 15 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 16 beautiful | advmod |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 hussars | amod |
| 17 | hussars | hussar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 came | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 staff | cc |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 staff | det |
| 20 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 staff | compound |
| 21 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hussars | conj |
| 22 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 apple | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 apple | cc |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 apple | det |
| 25 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 apple | compound |
| 26 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gave | obl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 which | case |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 draw | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 draw | nsubj |
| 30 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 draw | aux |
| 31 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 apple | parataxis |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 many | advmod |
| 33 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 soldiers | amod |
| 34 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 soldiers | compound |
| 35 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 draw | obj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 39 wished | mark |
| 37 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 39 wished | advmod |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 wished | nsubj |
| 39 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 draw | advcl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 staff | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 staff | cc |
| 42 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 staff | det |
| 43 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 staff | compound |
| 44 | staff | staff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 apple | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the old man | a silver apple | horse | a copper apple and a copper staff obl | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient apple=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | past | a silver apple | the beautiful hussars and a silver staff | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hussar=Theme | ||||
| 3 | draw | could | Man | many foot soldiers | a copper apple and a copper staff | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent soldier=Theme from which=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | wish | past | Man | ever | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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