The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 7
Then he offered nine hundred crowns to anyone who caught the evil-doer, and at the same time ordered that whoever did not keep proper watch over the fields should be killed; but though there were a great many people, none seemed able to protect the fields.
Who acts: king, whoever, great many people, none · What happens: offer, catch, order, not keep, kill, be · To what, where: hundred crowns, anyone, evil doer, proper watch, fields
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 (king, whoever, great many people, none), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 offered | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 offered | nsubj |
| 3 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | nine | nine | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 hundred | compound |
| 5 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 crowns | nummod |
| 6 | crowns | crown | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 offered | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 anyone | case |
| 8 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 offered | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 caught | nsubj |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 anyone | acl:relcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 doer | det |
| 12 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 doer | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 evil | punct |
| 14 | doer | doer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 ordered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 ordered | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 ordered | obl |
| 21 | ordered | order | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 offered | parataxis |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 keep | mark |
| 23 | whoever | whoever | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 keep | nsubj |
| 24 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 keep | aux |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 26 keep | advmod |
| 26 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 ordered | advcl |
| 27 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 watch | amod |
| 28 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 keep | obj |
| 29 | over | over | SCONJ | _ | 34 killed | mark |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fields | det |
| 31 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 killed | aux |
| 33 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 34 killed | aux:pass |
| 34 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 keep | advcl |
| 35 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 seemed | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 46 seemed | cc |
| 37 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 39 were | mark |
| 38 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 39 were | expl |
| 39 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 seemed | advcl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 people | det |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 people | amod |
| 42 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 people | amod |
| 43 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 were | nsubj |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 were | punct |
| 45 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 46 seemed | nsubj |
| 46 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 offered | parataxis |
| 47 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 seemed | xcomp |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 protect | mark |
| 49 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 able | xcomp |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 fields | det |
| 51 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 protect | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 offered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | king | hundred crowns | anyone | then | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent crown=Theme to anyone=Goal | ||
| 2 | catch | past | the evil doer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent doer=Theme | |||||
| 3 | order | participle | time | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not keep | past · do-support | whoever | proper watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 5 | kill | should · passive | the fields | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | be | past | a great many people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | seem | past | none | able property | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | protect | to-infinitive | none not said here | the fields | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Beneficiary |
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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