The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 101

“Yes there is,” said Rasmus; “when we were on our way south, we slept in the wood near here one night, and I shot a stag.”

Who acts: Rasmus, we · What happens: be, say, sleep, shoot · To what, where: way, wood, stag · 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 (Rasmus, we), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
2	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 is	discourse
3	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	4 is	expl
4	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 is	punct
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	Rasmus	Rasmus	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	16 way	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 way	advmod
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 way	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 way	cop
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 way	case
15	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 way	nmod:poss
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
17	south	south	ADV	_	16 way	advmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slept	punct
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 slept	nsubj
20	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	conj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 wood	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 wood	det
23	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slept	obl
24	near	near	ADP	_	25 here	case
25	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 slept	obl
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 night	nummod
27	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slept	obl:unmarked
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 shot	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 shot	cc
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 shot	nsubj
31	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 stag	det
33	stag	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 shot	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	31 shot	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	31 shot	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be in a quote	present			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Rasmus					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is in a quote	past	we		our way		south property	tree rules
4	sleep in a quote	past	we		the wood	night		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
5	shoot in a quote	past	Rasmus	a stag				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=Theme

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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