The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 3, sentence 92
But the shepherd answered: “I am not afraid of ten deaths!
Who acts: shepherd · What happens: answer, not be · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (shepherd), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 answered | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 shepherd | det |
| 3 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | nsubj |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 afraid | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 afraid | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 afraid | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 afraid | advmod |
| 10 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 answered | conj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 deaths | case |
| 12 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 deaths | nummod |
| 13 | deaths | death | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 afraid | obl |
| 14 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: express | past | the shepherd | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | the shepherd = shepherd | of ten deaths; afraid property | 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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