The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 12
“Don’t be fools,” he said to them; “what’s the good of beginning to fight among ourselves, when it is so necessary for the three of us to work together and get the upper hand over the king of this country.
Who acts: fools · What happens: not be, say, begin, fight, be, work together · To what, where: fools, giants, upper hand · 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 (fools), 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 | _ | 5 fools | punct |
| 2 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 fools | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 fools | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fools | cop |
| 5 | fools | fool | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fools | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 fools | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 them | case |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’s | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 ’s | nsubj |
| 15 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 good | det |
| 17 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ’s | xcomp |
| 18 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 19 beginning | mark |
| 19 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 good | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fight | mark |
| 21 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 beginning | xcomp |
| 22 | among | among | ADP | _ | 23 ourselves | case |
| 23 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 fight | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 necessary | punct |
| 25 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 29 necessary | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 necessary | expl |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 necessary | cop |
| 28 | so | so | ADV | _ | 29 necessary | advmod |
| 29 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ’s | conj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 32 three | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 three | det |
| 32 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 necessary | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 us | case |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 three | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 work | mark |
| 36 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 necessary | advcl |
| 37 | together | together | ADV | _ | 36 work | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 get | cc |
| 39 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 work | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 hand | det |
| 41 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 hand | amod |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 get | obj |
| 43 | over | over | ADP | _ | 45 king | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 king | det |
| 45 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 get | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 country | case |
| 47 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 48 country | det |
| 48 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 king | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a in a quote | infinitive · do-support | fools | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | fools | giants = giant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | begin in a quote | gerund | fools not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fight in a quote | to-infinitive | fools not said here | among ourselves | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | fools not said here | for the three of us; necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | work together in a quote | to-infinitive | fools not said here | together property | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | get in a quote | infinitive | fools not said here | the upper hand | over the king of this country | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=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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