The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 28
“May all your wishes be fulfilled as easily, for I am Shepherd Paul, and can wrestle with you at once,” replied the lad; and he seized Tree Comber and flung him with such force to the ground that he sank up to his knees in the earth.
Who acts: lad, man, your · What happens: fulfil, be, wrestle, reply, seize, fling · To what, where: wishes, Tree, man, ground, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lad, man, your), 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 | _ | 7 fulfilled | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 fulfilled | aux |
| 3 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 wishes | det:predet |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wishes | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 fulfilled | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 fulfilled | aux:pass |
| 7 | fulfilled | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 replied | advcl |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 9 easily | case |
| 9 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 7 fulfilled | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Shepherd | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 Shepherd | case |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 Shepherd | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 Shepherd | cop |
| 14 | Shepherd | Shepherd | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 fulfilled | obl |
| 15 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Shepherd | flat |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrestle | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 wrestle | cc |
| 18 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 wrestle | aux |
| 19 | wrestle | wrestle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 fulfilled | parataxis |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 wrestle | obl |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 19 wrestle | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 wrestle | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 replied | punct |
| 26 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lad | det |
| 28 | lad | lad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 replied | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 seized | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 seized | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 seized | nsubj |
| 32 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 replied | parataxis |
| 33 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 seized | obj |
| 34 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Tree | flat |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 flung | cc |
| 36 | flung | fling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seized | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 flung | obj |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 force | case |
| 39 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 force | amod |
| 40 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flung | obl |
| 41 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ground | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 ground | det |
| 43 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 flung | obl |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 sank | mark |
| 45 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 sank | nsubj |
| 46 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 flung | advcl |
| 47 | up | up | ADP | _ | 46 sank | compound:prt |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 knees | case |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 50 knees | nmod:poss |
| 50 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 sank | obl |
| 51 | in | in | ADP | _ | 53 earth | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 earth | det |
| 53 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 sank | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fulfil in a quote | may · passive | your wishes | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the lad = lad | for Shepherd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | wrestle in a quote | can | with you | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the lad | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | seize | past | man | Tree | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fling | past | man not said here | man | the ground | with such force | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent he=Theme to ground=Destination | ||
| 7 | sink up | past | man | the earth | to man's knees | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 8 | wish in a quote | your | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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