The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 42
“We three will go and look for game,” he said, “and you, Tree Comber, will stay behind and prepare a good supper for us.”
Who acts: We, Paul, you · What happens: go, look, say, stay, prepare · To what, where: good supper · 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 (We, Paul, you), 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 | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 go | nsubj |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 go | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 go | aux |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 look | cc |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | conj |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 game | case |
| 9 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 look | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 go | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stay | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 stay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 you | cc |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 stay | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Tree | punct |
| 19 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 you | conj |
| 20 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Tree | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 you | punct |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 stay | aux |
| 23 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADV | _ | 23 stay | advmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 prepare | cc |
| 26 | prepare | prepare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 stay | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 supper | det |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 supper | amod |
| 29 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 prepare | obj |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 us | case |
| 31 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 prepare | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | future | We | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look in a quote | infinitive | We not said here | for game | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for game=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Paul | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | stay in a quote | future | you | behind property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prepare in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | a good supper | for us | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent supper=Product for we=Beneficiary |
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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