The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 81
“And is it far yet?” said the old people, who were beginning to be worn out by the long journey.
Who acts: way, old people, long journey · What happens: be, say, begin, wear out · 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 (way, old people, long journey), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 yet | cc |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 yet | cop |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 yet | nsubj |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 yet | advmod |
| 6 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 9 said | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 yet | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 yet | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 people | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 people | amod |
| 12 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 beginning | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 beginning | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 beginning | aux |
| 16 | beginning | begin | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 people | conj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 worn | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 worn | aux:pass |
| 19 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 beginning | xcomp |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 worn | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 journey | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 journey | det |
| 23 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 journey | amod |
| 24 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 worn | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | way | far, yet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the old people | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | begin | past · progressive | the old people | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | wear out | to-infinitive · passive | the long journey | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent |
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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