The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 90
Next morning the Lord Chamberlain came to see the shepherd’s bones, and was amazed to find him alive and well.
Who acts: Lord Chamberlain · What happens: come, see, be, find · To what, where: bones, shepherd
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 (Lord Chamberlain), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Chamberlain | det |
| 4 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Chamberlain | compound |
| 5 | Chamberlain | Chamberlain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 see | mark |
| 8 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 shepherd | det |
| 10 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bones | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 shepherd | case |
| 12 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 see | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 amazed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 amazed | cc |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 amazed | cop |
| 16 | amazed | amazed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 came | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 find | mark |
| 18 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 amazed | csubj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 find | obj |
| 20 | alive | alive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 find | xcomp |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 well | cc |
| 22 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 alive | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the Lord Chamberlain | morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | the Lord Chamberlain not said here | the shepherd's bones | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bone=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the Lord Chamberlain not said here | amazed property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | shepherd | alive property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
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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