The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 41
“Give me leave to go to the next village—I owe a small bill there, and I want to go and pay it”; and as there was nothing to be done in the palace the housekeeper gave him leave.
Who acts: you, prince, housekeeper · What happens: give, leave, go, owe, want, pay · To what, where: prince, next village, small bill, bill, nothing, palace
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 (you, prince, housekeeper), 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 | _ | 2 Give | punct |
| 2 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Give | iobj |
| 4 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Give | xcomp |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 leave | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 village | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 village | det |
| 9 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 village | amod |
| 10 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 go | obl |
| 11 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 owe | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 owe | nsubj |
| 13 | owe | owe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Give | parataxis |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 bill | det |
| 15 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bill | amod |
| 16 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 owe | obj |
| 17 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 owe | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 want | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 want | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 want | nsubj |
| 21 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 owe | conj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 go | mark |
| 23 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 want | xcomp |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 pay | cc |
| 25 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 go | conj |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pay | obj |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 pay | punct |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 nothing | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 nothing | cc |
| 30 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 32 was | mark |
| 31 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 32 was | expl |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 nothing | cop |
| 33 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 2 Give | obl |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 done | mark |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 done | aux:pass |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 nothing | acl |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 palace | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 palace | det |
| 39 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 done | obl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 housekeeper | det |
| 41 | housekeeper | housekeeper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 gave | nsubj |
| 42 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 43 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 gave | iobj |
| 44 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 gave | xcomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give in a quote | imperative | you not said here | the prince = prince | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | go in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the next village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | owe in a quote | present | the prince = prince | a small bill | there | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent bill=Theme | |||
| 5 | want in a quote | present | the prince = prince | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | go not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | the prince = prince not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | pay in a quote | infinitive | the prince = prince not said here | bill | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Asset | ||||
| 8 | is a | past | nothing | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | do | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | the palace | vn act-114-1 «NP V» | ||||
| 10 | give | past | the housekeeper | news | tree rules | ||||
| 11 | leave | infinitive | the housekeeper not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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