The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 30, sentence 92
After they had got time to rest themselves, the princess’s steward came to hear their story.
Who acts: people, steward · What happens: get, rest, come, hear · To what, where: people, story
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 (people, steward), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 4 got | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 got | aux |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 came | advcl |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rest | mark |
| 7 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 time | acl |
| 8 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 rest | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 steward | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 princess | case |
| 13 | steward | steward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 came | nsubj |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 hear | mark |
| 16 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | xcomp |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 story | nmod:poss |
| 18 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hear | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · perfect | people | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | rest | to-infinitive | people not said here | people | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the princess's steward | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | hear | to-infinitive | the princess's steward not said here | people's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=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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