The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 43
So Tree Comber set to work to boil and roast, and when dinner was nearly ready, a little dwarf with a pointed beard strolled up to the place.
Who acts: Tree, dinner · What happens: set, work, boil, roast, be, stroll up · To what, where: pointed beard, place
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 (Tree, dinner), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 3 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tree | flat |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 work | mark |
| 6 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 set | xcomp |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 boil | mark |
| 8 | boil | boil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 work | advcl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 roast | cc |
| 10 | roast | roast | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 boil | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 ready | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 ready | cc |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 ready | advmod |
| 14 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ready | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 ready | cop |
| 16 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 17 ready | advmod |
| 17 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 set | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dwarf | punct |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 dwarf | det |
| 20 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 dwarf | amod |
| 21 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ready | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 beard | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 beard | det |
| 24 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 beard | amod |
| 25 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 dwarf | nmod |
| 26 | strolled | stroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 beard | acl |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 strolled | compound:prt |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 place | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 place | det |
| 30 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strolled | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | Tree | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | Tree not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | boil | to-infinitive | Tree not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | roast | infinitive | Tree not said here | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | is | past | dinner | a little dwarf with a pointed beard obl; nearly, ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | stroll up | participle | a pointed beard not said here | the place | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to place=Destination |
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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