The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 64
And so he did; but first he asked for the copper apple from the younger princess, and when all the soldiers were drawn up there were such numbers that there was barely room for them.
Who acts: two, such numbers · What happens: do, ask, draw up, be · To what, where: soldiers, room
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 (two, such numbers), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 did | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 7 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 asked | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 room | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 apple | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 apple | det |
| 12 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 apple | compound |
| 13 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obl |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 princess | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 princess | det |
| 16 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 princess | amod |
| 17 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 apple | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 drawn | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 drawn | cc |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 25 drawn | mark |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 soldiers | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 soldiers | det |
| 23 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 drawn | nsubj |
| 24 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 drawn | aux:pass |
| 25 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 asked | ccomp |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 drawn | compound:prt |
| 27 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 drawn | advmod |
| 28 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 room | cop |
| 29 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 numbers | amod |
| 30 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 room | nsubj |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 was | nsubj |
| 32 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 33 was | expl |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 room | cop |
| 34 | barely | barely | ADV | _ | 33 was | advmod |
| 35 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 them | case |
| 37 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 room | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | two | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | two | for the copper apple from the younger princess; first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | draw up | past · passive | all soldiers | there | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is a | past | such numbers | room | for soldiers = soldier | tree rules |
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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