The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 103
Unluckily, at the sight of the maidens’ beauty, so far beyond anything they had ever seen, the friends forgot all about Paul, and carried the girls straight away into a far country, so that they were not much better off than before.
Who acts: heads, friends · What happens: see, forget, carry, be, sight · To what, where: girls, far country, beauty
This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heads, friends), 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 | Unluckily | unluckily | ADV | _ | 5 sight | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Unluckily | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 beauty | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 maidens | det |
| 8 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 8 maidens | case |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 seen | punct |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 far | advmod |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 seen | advmod |
| 14 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 15 anything | case |
| 15 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 19 seen | obl |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 seen | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | aux |
| 18 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 19 seen | advmod |
| 19 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 sight | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 forgot | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 friends | det |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 forgot | nsubj |
| 23 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 seen | conj |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 Paul | advmod |
| 25 | about | about | ADP | _ | 26 Paul | case |
| 26 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 forgot | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 carried | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 carried | cc |
| 29 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 forgot | parataxis |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 girls | det |
| 31 | girls | girl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 carried | obj |
| 32 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 33 away | advmod |
| 33 | away | away | ADV | _ | 29 carried | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 country | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 country | det |
| 36 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 country | amod |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carried | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 better | punct |
| 39 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 45 better | mark |
| 40 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 so | fixed |
| 41 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 better | nsubj |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 better | cop |
| 43 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 44 much | advmod |
| 44 | much | much | ADV | _ | 45 better | advmod |
| 45 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 29 carried | conj |
| 46 | off | off | ADP | _ | 45 better | compound:prt |
| 47 | than | than | ADP | _ | 48 before | case |
| 48 | before | before | ADV | _ | 45 better | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · perfect | heads = head | ever | beyond anything; far property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | forget | past | the friends | about Paul | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | the girls | a far country | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | past | heads = head | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | sight | the maidens's beauty | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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