The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 9
When it grew dark he climbed up on the top of the fourth rick, from where he could see the whole field.
Who acts: swineherd, king · What happens: grow, climb up, see · To what, where: top, whole field
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 (swineherd, king), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 grew | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 climbed | advcl |
| 4 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 climbed | nsubj |
| 6 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 climbed | compound:prt |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 top | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 top | det |
| 10 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 climbed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 rick | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 rick | det |
| 13 | fourth | fourth | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 14 rick | amod |
| 14 | rick | rick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 top | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 16 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 20 see | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 see | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 see | aux |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 climbed | conj |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 field | det |
| 22 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 field | amod |
| 23 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 see | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | swineherd | dark property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | climb up | past | king | the top of the fourth rick | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on top=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | see | could | king | the whole field | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer field=Stimulus |
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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