The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 74
This was done, and many strange tales were told to the princess, but none of the travellers said a word about the three giants.
Who acts: none · What happens: do, tell, say · To what, where: This, many strange tales, princess, word · 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 (none), 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 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 done | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | aux:pass |
| 3 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 told | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 told | cc |
| 6 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tales | amod |
| 7 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tales | amod |
| 8 | tales | tale | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 told | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 told | aux:pass |
| 10 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 done | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 princess | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 princess | det |
| 13 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 told | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 16 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 20 said | nsubj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 travellers | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 travellers | det |
| 19 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 none | nmod |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 done | parataxis |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 word | det |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obj |
| 23 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 giants | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 giants | det |
| 25 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 giants | nummod |
| 26 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 word | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · passive | This | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past · passive | many strange tales | the princess | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to princess=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | none | a word | about the three giants | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=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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