The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 100
That’s all my own story, and our two sons have lived with us all their days, so there is nothing more to be told about them either.”
Who acts: two sons, nothing · What happens: live, be, tell · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two sons, nothing), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 ’s | nsubj |
| 2 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 story | det:predet |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 story | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 story | amod |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ’s | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lived | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lived | cc |
| 9 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 sons | nmod:poss |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 sons | nummod |
| 11 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 lived | nsubj |
| 12 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lived | aux |
| 13 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 ’s | advcl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 us | case |
| 15 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 lived | obl |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 days | det:predet |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 days | nmod:poss |
| 18 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 us | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 is | advmod |
| 21 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 is | expl |
| 22 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 ’s | parataxis |
| 23 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 22 is | nsubj |
| 24 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 23 nothing | amod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 told | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 told | aux:pass |
| 27 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 nothing | acl |
| 28 | about | about | ADP | _ | 29 them | case |
| 29 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 told | obl |
| 30 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 27 told | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 is | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 ’s | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present · perfect | our two sons | with us | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with we=Location | ||||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive · passive | nothing not said here | about people; either property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: about they=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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