The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 31, sentence 47
Tree Comber felt rather ashamed of himself, and set about boiling some more vegetables, but they were still very hard when the hunters returned, and though they complained of his bad cooking, he did not tell them about the dwarf.
Who acts: Tree, trees, hunters, Comber · What happens: feel, set, boil, be, return, complain · To what, where: more vegetables, hunters · 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 (Tree, trees, hunters, Comber), 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 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | Comber | Comber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Tree | flat |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 ashamed | advmod |
| 5 | ashamed | ashamed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 himself | case |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 ashamed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 set | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 set | cc |
| 10 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 felt | conj |
| 11 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 boiling | case |
| 12 | boiling | boil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 set | obl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 vegetables | det |
| 14 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 15 vegetables | amod |
| 15 | vegetables | vegetable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 boiling | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 returned | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 returned | cc |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 hard | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 hard | cop |
| 20 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 hard | advmod |
| 21 | very | very | ADV | _ | 22 hard | advmod |
| 22 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 returned | advmod |
| 23 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 returned | advmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 hunters | det |
| 25 | hunters | hunter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 returned | nsubj |
| 26 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 tell | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 tell | cc |
| 29 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 31 complained | mark |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 complained | nsubj |
| 31 | complained | complain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 tell | advcl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 cooking | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 cooking | nmod:poss |
| 34 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 cooking | amod |
| 35 | cooking | cooking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 complained | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 complained | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 tell | nsubj |
| 38 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 tell | aux |
| 39 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 tell | advmod |
| 40 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 felt | conj |
| 41 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 tell | iobj |
| 42 | about | about | ADP | _ | 44 dwarf | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 dwarf | det |
| 44 | dwarf | dwarf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tell | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | Tree | ashamed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | set | infinitive | Tree not said here | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | boil | gerund | some more vegetables | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent vegetable=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | trees = tree | still | hard property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | return | past | the hunters | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | complain speech: other | past | hunters = hunter | of Comber's bad cooking | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | not tell speech: assert | past · do-support | Comber | hunters = hunter | about the dwarf | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient about dwarf=Topic | |||
| 8 | cook | Comber | nom cooking «act 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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