The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 34
“I am Stone Crusher,” answered the man, and the greatest wish of my life is to wrestle with Shepherd Paul.”
Who acts: Stone, greatest wish, life · What happens: be, answer, wish · To what, where: Stone, man · 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 (Stone, greatest wish, life), 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 | _ | 4 Stone | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Stone | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Stone | cop |
| 4 | Stone | Stone | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 5 | Crusher | Crusher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Stone | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Stone | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Stone | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wrestle | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wrestle | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wish | det |
| 14 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 wish | amod |
| 15 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wrestle | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 life | nmod:poss |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wish | nmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wrestle | cop |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 wrestle | mark |
| 21 | wrestle | wrestle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 answered | ccomp |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Paul | case |
| 23 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 Paul | compound |
| 24 | Paul | Paul | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 wrestle | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 wrestle | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wrestle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Stone | Stone | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert | past | Stone | the man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is | present | the greatest wish of my life | with Shepherd Paul; wrestle property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | wish | my life | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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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